Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefit of other interested observers, London's papers printed every detail of the wedding plans as they were announced. Even in New York the British Information Service was kept busy answering questions. "Yes," they told one questioner, "the wedding will be paid for in the usual fashion. The bridegroom will take care of the church expenses. The reception will be paid for by the King...
This week they banned "Forever Amber" in Providence. The Legion of Decency has condemned it. And in New York Francis Cardinal Spellman looks askance upon the multi-million dollar "historical" drama. 'Yet yesterday, in more or less unexpurgated fashion, Amber and her playmates opened a probably interminable run at a couple of the smaller Boston cinema emporia. This may be liberalism of a sort, or this may only be a sign of bluenose forgetfulness, but, sad to say, it doesn't represent any kind of progress in the matter of quality...
...Cussed and discussed by men and women alike was "The New Look" in fashion which calls for all but one of these...
...Fashion's New Look got a withering glare from square-jawed Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, 54, of the University of Illinois' professional schools (TIME, Jan. 13).Tight corsets, growled Ivy to a group of Jacksonville, ILL. colleagues, are a direct cause of stomach ulcers in women. Moreover, he added, if he could get $5,000 and 40 monkeys together, he would put the monkeys into tight corsets for two years just to prove his theory...
...French took too much notice. Top designers-Paquin, Schiaparelli, Maggy Rouff, et al.-had all promised to attend the show. But as the beauteous California models paraded in their bathing suits and dresses before buyers and fashion writers, there was not a big-name designer among the oglers. They had decided that California's bold publicity stunt threatened too much competition. But Georges Berheim, manager of Paris' huge Galeries Lafayette department store, cried: "Sensational! I would like to buy the whole collection...