Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...razor-keen sense, as sharp as any other designer's, of what U.S. women will finally choose to wear out of the hodge-podge of new styles. As far as the great mass-producing dress shops of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue are concerned, that makes Sophie a fashion chart. What she displays one week-at $255 a dress and -up-is often what the Seventh Avenue lofts will be busily making into a reasonable facsimile a year later...
...boss of Saks, and as a genial extravert who likes to air his opinions, Adam is not above telling Sophie how she ought to run her fashion business. Sophie usually ends such discussions: "Now, Adam, dear, we've been all over that before. You know how familiar I am with the subject, so let's not discuss it again...
...dress industry. Her rivals try to belittle her by saying: "After all, she's the boss's wife." But no one who knows Adam really believes that that's the answer. Sophie has her job because she has earned it. And in the backbiting world of fashion she is quite able to take care of herself. As Sophie says, in her most ladylike tones: "After all, my dear, Hattie Carnegie isn't really a designer. She's a saleswoman." (Catty-cornered across the way, Hattie parries this knife-thrust acidly: "I wouldn't call...
...Neiman-Marcus Co. for his "outstanding service" to the clothing industry. For the counter-revolutionists he had a well-bred sneer. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion- very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions...
...definitive study, Recurring Cycles of Fashion, Agnes Brooks Young discovered only three major styles in women's dresses in the last 200 years: back fullness (the bustle), tubular skirts (the basic fashion from 1900 through 1937), and the bell skirt of pre-Civil War days. Each cycle seemed to last about 38 years...