Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want is comaraderie with the average college boy anyway," said one venerable gendarme dispensing a ticket to a Harvard speedster yesterday who reported the fashion note...
...this was the end of a careful, lengthy investigation of the fashion industry. Since Mme. Schiaparelli appeared on TIME'S cover in the issue of August 13, 1934, no fashion designer had landed there. Early last summer, however, it appeared to Purtell, who keeps his eye on the world of fashion, that the new styles were about to become big news. Obviously, that was a Business story. After a candid examination of the industry, Designer Sophie Gimbel was chosen to illuminate what fashion was up to this time. The cover was scheduled for September, the month that ushers...
With editor and writer decided on how the story should be handled, Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd took over. Unlike her male confreres, she was on familiar, everyday ground. After reading a mound of material on fashion's past, she set out to investigate its present-from Sophie's Fifth Avenue salon to Nettie Rosenstein's ("they call it showroom in this neck of the woods") among the pushcarts on Seventh Avenue. In examining the mechanism that was creating the New Look, she quickly concluded that "I definitely had the Old Look...
...write of factories; a perennial kind of plain, impatient critic has found his preoccupations morbid. The stories assembled in this volume, and the longer novels, Victory, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, make both these accusations seem as irrelevant as the "dating" of Conrad's work. Neither time nor fashion really affects its nature, which is Sophoclean and tragic: "The plight of the man on whom life closes down...
Speaking as a 1947 guest editor of Mademoiselle, women's fashion magazine. Marry Lou Buckley, Radcliffe, '49, thinks that a moderate length will be adopted by college girls. "Thirteen or 14 inches from the ground is quite enough for daytime wear," she said. "Tall girls will discover that skirts well below the knee are graceful and flattering to them, but extreme length will make short girls look henny...