Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, for the first time in more than two decades, some 300 U. S. dress manufacturers, designers, buyers and fashion editors failed to spend early August in Paris, France. For the first time in over 20 years the cables were barren of news from world headquarters of the haute couture. For the first time since they began publication, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar sent to press their all-important autumn issues without a single last-minute Paris model to rave about. The U. S. dress business, whose 7,000 manufacturers and 250,000 workers turn out upwards...
Importance of Paris to the U. S. dress business has been partly synthetic, partly real. Manhattan's fashion world has plenty of adroit and imaginative designers of its own - some (like Bergdorf Goodman's Ethel Frankau, Saks Fifth Avenue's Sophie Gimbel) custom designers of exclusive models; others (like Nettie Rosenstein, Germaine Monteil) adapters of style to the mass-produced items that have made the average U. S. woman the best-dressed average woman in the world. But the U. S. dress business, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh, is atomic, leaderless, cutthroat, jealous of itself. Its genius...
...well know. When in Yunnan recently, I asked a Chinese what he thought of things generally in the world. Being a businessman rather than a scholar or an official and having come from South China he replied in pidgin English "Belly bad. Can do, no can do, what fashion?" which translated into good Shakespearean English reads "Very bad. To be or not to be. That is the question." In Hong Kong, I asked a Chinese what the Chinese thought of the Japanese. He replied "Chinaman think Japanman no got proper savvy box." I notice the American public has been indulging...
...Vice President in 1920, Woodrow Wilson had him quit as Assistant Secretary of the Navy as soon as he began campaigning. Cracked a reporter: "When does Wallace start campaigning?" Mr. Roosevelt laughed and dropped the subject. A few hours later Mr. Wallace picked it up, settled it after a fashion: ". . . I plan to resign or take a leave of absence without pay . . . as soon as I begin active political campaigning. This will be shortly after my notification ceremonies and acceptance in late August...
Rattling along in this fashion last week, BBC's Newscaster Charles ("Filthy") Gardner brought to British listeners radio's first eyewitness blow-by-blow account of a full-dress air battle. Nervous, wiry, a pilot himself, Gardner patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon an air fight off the chalk cliffs of Dover. For nine frantic minutes, Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough...