Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women's adoption of the long, unfitted jacket as part of their so-called "style wardrobe" is a usurpation of the traditional privilege of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men to wear their coats half-way down to their knees, Elsa Schiaparelli, the world's most famous fashion designer, admitted yesterday...
...would make no prediction as to how long it would be before Paris was again the world's fashion headquarters. "If I could do that I could predict how long the war would last," she said. "However, I do think it will be a long time before New York can be the style center of the world...
...centre strip, soon to be hedged with small fir trees, divides the four lanes into two. No signboards mar the way or confuse the eye-its only borders are the misty, pine-edged hillsides of the Alleghenies. Ten smart Esso stations, finished Pennsylvania-Dutch fashion in native wood and stone, specialize in restroom toilet seats sterilized by ultraviolet ray after every...
...fashion of tightly laced waists, which flourished off & on for several hundred years, caused women great harm and discomfort. Despite the gibes of Satirist Montaigne and the objurgations of several French kings and of Cardinal Richelieu, ladies kept trying to cut themselves in two. In the late 18th Century, a lady had to call in both a manservant and a maidservant for the lacing job, and if she was stout the two helpers had to use a wooden crank. Ribs of these unfortunates were often so compressed that they overlapped, bringing on lung trouble, hemorrhages, other internal disorders. Two-thirds...
After World War I, when women felt emancipated, they fell hard for the "boyish form" fashion. They tried to obliterate their breasts by binding them with tight brassieres-in many cases making them flabby and pendulous. Dr. LaRoe is a great admirer of the modern brassiere, which combines proper support with alluring and healthful freedom...