Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fashion Note. In Chicago, a department store featured two brands of sheer nighties, found that "Sinners" outsold "Saints" three...
...Japanese man-in-the-street, interviewed by Allied newsmen, reacted in typical Japanese fashion: he himself had never really believed the Emperor divine. Perhaps he meant it. Perhaps he was characteristically saying what he thought his interviewers wanted him to say. Perhaps he was just being bafflingly Japanese...
...highly feminine creative touch. In her 22 years at Lord & Taylor's she used them both to advantage. Under the team of Hoving & Shaver, Lord & Taylor became one of the nation's swank stores. And Dorothy Shaver became one of Manhattan's top purveyors of fashion...
...designing, Dorothy managing. Impressed again, Lord & Taylor reached out for Dorothy, put her in charge of its Comparative Shopping Bureau. She reorganized it top & bottom, got rid of the dingy "spy system," put in a Bureau of Stylists to help buyers and improve merchandising. Most of all she plugged fashion, at first that of Paris (she staged the first exhibit in America of modern French decorative art). Then she turned her attention from Paris and battled for recognition of American fashion and design...
...close to Rockefeller Center and Best & Co.'s new store. In carrying out this expansion, Dorothy Shaver will have the help of able Van Buren Sims, first vice president. What Dorothy Shaver's uptown store will look like, no outsider knows. But New Yorkers will expect a fashion treat...