Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ellen. Investigators were also sifting through stories that concerned several call girls who operated in this rarefied atmosphere. Among these was a young German woman who was asked to leave the U.S. after FBI agents showed her dossier to other interested authorities. She was Ellen Rometsch, 27, a sometime fashion model and wife of a West German army sergeant who was assigned to his country's military mission in Washington. An ambitious, name-dropping, heavily made-up mother of a five-year-old boy, Elly was a fixture at Washington parties. In September, five weeks after the Rometsches were...
...first thing the first couple did after committing the first sin was to get dressed. Thus Adam and Eve started the world of fashion, and styles have been changing ever since...
...Fashion's permutations and combinations have fascinated the frivolous and the furrow-browed; the shirring of a sleeve or the fall of a hemline has borne the burden of some heavy-duty thinking. Psychologists have explored man's ambivalence about clothes, noting that he uses them on the one hand to cover the body's naughty nakedness, and on the other hand to draw attention...
Historians, for their part, like to interpret fashion as a reflection of world events. Thus women's clothes in the Middle Ages blossomed with a new luxuriance of embroidered accessories under the influence of the loot brought back from the Crusades. The French Revolution temporarily reduced women from elaborate confections to simpler citizens. And the emancipation of women after World War I changed them almost overnight from being "all bosoms and bottoms," as Mrs. Patrick Campbell once wisecracked, to flat-chested, flat-hipped, shingle-headed imitations of little boys...
...cream of the museum's total collection is currently on view in a stunning exhibit designed to demonstrate not the psychological, not the historical, or the sociological interpretation of women's fashion, but the view of clothes as one of the fine arts...