Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Place Vendôme to the Etoile, along the avenues and down the alleys where Paris couturiers have their lairs and set the world's fashions, all was feverish activity last week. U. S. department store buyers and fashion reporters, newsgatherers and ladies of the haute monde scurried from one fashion house to the next, for it was the official Fall Opening. They and the waiting world were eager to learn what the well-dressed woman must wear for the next six months...
...fashion last week eyed the White House darkly. Warren Delano Robbins, official U. S. arbiter elegantarium, had been caught out on the front steps in formal attire (see cut) which outraged professional taste. "Beau Nash" (Alfred Stephen Bryan) who writes "What the Well Dressed Man Should Wear" in New York theatre programs criticized out loud...
This reference was to the famed Twelve Orders "on women's immodest fashion of dress" issued by authority of Pope Pius XI some months ago to higher Catholic clergy throughout the world. Order No. 1 declares that "the parish priest . . . should insist, argue, exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and that their ornament be a defense of virtue." Order No. 5 states that "headmistresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order...
What actually constitutes "immodest fashion" the Twelve Orders leave to be construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require. Last week the new Archbishop of Paris vastly endeared himself to Frenchwomen by his construction. Short sleeves, low necks, short skirts (should they again come in) and the scanty bathing costumes still sanctioned by the French mode were apparently all covered by this statement from His Eminence...
Gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg gurgled and thundered in terrifying fashion last week, according to reports from his summer Red House at Neudeck. Chancellor Heinrich Brüning had just come out from Berlin in hangdog fashion, admitted that the Budget was in chaos, presented the resignation of Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer...