Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paix to jeer at an elderly champagne-sipper: "You! We didn't get you in '48, but we won't miss in the next revolution." Last week the revolution finally engulfed the Café de la Paix. After 86 years as a bastion of fashion (and fancy prices), the famed restaurant turned over one-eighth of its floor space to an American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations, i.e., pressagent, explained: "We want to attract the salaried American vacationer who gets tired of five-course meals at high prices...
Loose T-shirts can be worn with shorts and pedal pushers and are big news fashion-wise for beachwear when worn over swimsuits. Individual details on T-shirts include bloused cut, rib knit boarders, slashed sides, or sailor collars...
...latest in sporty fashions come from the Far East and combine a fine masculine dignity with a great variety of fresh and colorful patterns. For beachwear, the fashion-conscious man may choose a collarless Happi beach coat with matching trunks in a bright, bold print...
...young debonair who is stepping out for a summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines...
Completing these high-fashion ensembles is the new Flat-top hat in fuzzy Shetland-finished felt, with a narrow brim and a sporty taper running up to an absolutely flat summit. There's even a bow in the back...