Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flowers. A writer expressed the belief that Americans wanted to understand Japan better. The art of ceremonial tea-making and flower arrangements, he said hopefully, were "in fashion among the society class of America...
...newspapers last week, big bold advertisements for mammoth summer clearance sales fought for space with the chichi ads of the new fall fashion collections. Big & little stores everywhere were trying desperately to unload their wartime inventories. They were also trying to prove to their somewhat skeptical customers that current fashions according to the L85 fabric-conservation order are really haute couture...
Meanwhile the two major fashion magazines described the new fashions. Said Vogue: "New York fashion houses . . . have staged a sort of bloodless silhouette revolution . . . and no L85 rules broken. . . ." Said Harper's Bazaar: "Hide your flat stomach. . . . Unsquare your shoulders . . . shoulders are curves on sleeves blown out like blown glass...
Admiral William F. Halsey introduced a wry note of sportsmanship in an order issued to the Third Fleet: "Cease firing, but if you see any enemy planes in the air, shoot them down in friendly fashion...
...market, they should know what the kids want." For his key workers he appointed the "Joe Guns" (most popular students) of Chicago high schools as "research supervisors," gave them 75? an hour to poll students. He now has a staff of 350 adolescent aides and a pert, blonde fashion director, 18-year-old Shirley Rappelt...