Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the old & the new, the right & the left seemed to be seeking the elusive dove in their own fashion. From far-off Hokkaido, lured by an enterprising Tokyo promoter, a tribe of Japan's aboriginal Ainus came to stage the first touring performance of their ancient bear festival...
Chatillon has made customer-shocking a million-peso-a-year business. For half an hour before the opening of his annual fashion show last week, the Packards and Cadillacs of traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo de la Reforma. Inside, they sipped cocktails and critically eyed U.S., French and Mexican mannequins in a display of 60 new models ranging from simple afternoon dresses to bare-top evening gowns at from 1,500 to 5,000 pesos each...
...Chatillon expanded into the dress field, has now become Mexico's arbiter of fashion. He has 78 workers and turns out an average of 1,000 dresses a year. Some of his inspiration comes from Mexican sources (his materials are made by Mexican weavers), but his designs are mainly Parisian...
Harvard coach Bruce Munro, who followed the game in his customary up-the-field, down-the-field fashion, still claimed weak spots after the game, despite his players' obvious superiority...
Students got about in Europe by every conceivable means, from gondola to airliner. Bicycle is the fashion abroad: on maps, roads are even marked with little pointed things to show where the hills are and which way they go. Jeeps are cheap and rugged. A few stalwarts went about on motorcycles, which are fine except on cobblestones, where they shake you to jelly...