Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, dress designers put on a fashion show, complete with crazy spring hats. Wrote the Socialist paper Das Volk: "One year ago . . . sirens used to scream and bombs brought death. . . . Now it is over. . . . Reconstruction work in our destroyed Germany will advance...
...preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
Those policies are a part of U.S. sartorial history. Brooks's famed trademark, the Golden Fleece, has long represented the height of stodgy male fashion. Brooks No. 1 Sack Coat has long been the high-buttoned, conservative uniform of the high-buttoned, conservative gentleman...
...rescue the Chinese could-and warmly did-thank him. The U.S. and the world could thank George Marshall for an even more important service. For the first time in a major postwar issue, the power, prestige and principles of U.S. democracy had been brought to bear in constructive, positive fashion...
Complicated & Simple. Yet, if fuzzy, Yes was by no means foolish. In its chip-shot fashion, it possibly came closer to revealing a French family disrupted by clashing political loyalties than something more dynamic and excitable would have done. Playwright Stein, who spent the war among such people, wanted "the audience to realize that French families were divided as our American families were divided in the Civil War, and it is complicated and simple." In Yes, Henry and his young brother Ferdinand become part of the Resistance; Henry's wife and her aristocratic family are pro-Pétain...