Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foremost newsmagazine in the world, why not help the sane and intelligent women of our country to stop this new fashion trend (TIME...
...husbands refuse to plunk down their hard-earned dollars for these backdated, repelling suits of armor, I'm sure the money-mad creators of fashion will once again create as we desire. I for one could not stand to see my lovely little wife turning blue as she gasped for air in a laced vise, nor would I enjoy the clank and clatter of new form-building pads as she tripped lightly by. Let the unshapely change their forms at will but I like my wife as is and prefer dresses that show...
Harnett's realism created a short-lived fashion; his prices rose to $2,000 a picture before he died in 1892, then dropped abruptly. A bachelor recluse, he is known to have granted only one interview, in the course of which he made a puzzling statement: "I do not closely imitate nature...
...polls showed that, though a majority of U.S. women disliked the new styles, all but a handful planned to wear them. Oldsters recalled that there had been a furor, too, over the hobble skirt of the early 1900s and the above-the-knee skirt of the '20s, yet fashion had prevailed...
...Phillips' vice president in charge of public relations. He had been flown on a quick tour of Oklahoma, Texas and California oil fields and refineries. At Oklahoma City, a sheep was roasted for the Prince; at Borger, Tex. he got eggplant, cheese and bread prepared in Yemenite fashion by Mrs. Sam Mafey, the Yemen-born wife of a Phillips employee...