Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic dress and functional wear. Diana Vreeland, who in her years as a fashion doyen coined a neat line about Indian dress ("Pink...
...deepest. There are social nuances in every garment, highborn or not. A man's white cotton overblouse can be tied in 58 ways, each with its own social connotation. The knots at the waist of a courtesan's skirt could be so intricate that only she could undo them: fashion as a fail-safe device. A contemporary turban, worn by an ironmonger, shows in its coloration and style of wrapping the wearer's occupation, his residence and his marital status: fashion as calling card...
...originated), partly from the British raj (all those brown and khaki earth tones) and partly too from what Curator Singh calls "the fugitive color palette"--the homespun miracle that would occur when a villager, out of necessity, dyed and redyed the same piece of cloth. Serendipity and splendor then: fashion as tradition. Fashion, indeed, as the warp of the social fabric...
Garrison adds, "At first I was worried that other people wouldn't take my topic seriously. I was getting desperate in my search for a subject and I got the idea when I reread an article on 11th and 12th century fashion changes. A few days later, I was inspired to actually write about beards after I heard a lecture by a Princeton historian...
...cisplatin kills the cancer cells by attacking the genetic material, DNA, in a fashion different from the way 5-fluorouracil attacks DNA, and only when they work together...can they work to kill the cancer," Amrein said...