Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictums uncomplainingly. From hundreds of Kaffeeklatsche and bridge tables rose pained outcries. "Nasty old man!" fumed a sergeant's wife. Snorted the redheaded wife of a lieutenant: "The Army can't tell me what's good taste. Next thing, they'll be taking fashion courses at West Point...
...shrieks and sly gags over the newest look in Paris fashions (TIME, Aug. 9) were beginning to die down last week. As the gasps subsided along Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honore, and the fashion editors took a second look, they saw that Designer Christian Dior's flat look was not so flat after all. Fewer than a third of Dior's new dresses minimized the bosom, and even these bore no resemblance to the droopy formlessness of the Jazz Age. Most dresses were molded from hipbone to mid-bust, creating a long, svelte torso, a high and undeniably...
...with your dear Lord." But the priest liked the little ruffian,the only other educated man on the poverty-stricken island. It was hard not to like a man who not only treated the poor for nothing but gave them food, money and fuel as well. In Robin Hood fashion, De Geus clipped his few rich patients unmercifully, but no one could accuse him of greed. Before long he and the priest were pals, sat long over the wine after dinner, carried on endless conversations. The peasants were almost as shocked by their priest's choice of company...
From the dress and fashion industry's point of view, such a state of affairs was ideal. Cried Ohrbach's Sydney Gittler triumphantly: "The new simple lines are here for keeps...
...south of the bottom. Belts sagged low around the haunch, embracing a girl where there is most to embrace. The plunging neckline, an enticing vista down which men had been peering happily for years, was firmly closed over by featureless cloth. Even evening dresses hovered near the collar bone. Fashion editors burbled of "straight, flat pullovers," "oldfashioned middy blouses...