Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody in Dallas suddenly began sleeping on candy-striped bed sheets three years ago, they had a reasonable explanation : "Mr. Stanley said it was the thing to do." Mr. Stanley is Stanley Marcus, 48, president of the famed Neiman-Marcus luxury specialty store, and the benevolent dictator of fashion not only for Dallas but for the whole Southwest. He has made himself so mainly by superb showmanship and a solemn dedication to his job that causes competitors to refer waspishly to Neiman's as "The Cathedral...
Last week Showman Marcus put on his biggest show of the year- his 16th annual Fall Fashion Exposition, in which the store had invested $50,000 and 12,000 man-hours of labor. By the shrewd device of awarding "Distinguished Service" plaques to outstanding designers, Mr. Stanley, as usual, had brought headline names* scurrying to Dallas from all over the world. Many another headliner came from distant points just to bid for the privilege of paying $12.50 (turned over to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts) to be among the 1,000 paying guests in the first-night audience...
...Neiman's still caters to the new rich, it does not forget that the bulk of its business comes from those who spend only $250 a year. With the $2,000 dresses, it also carries dresses for as little as $9.95. For all customers, Stanley Marcus started weekly fashion lectures, and the women who jammed in have accepted his quietly authoritative dicta. "Dallas women don't want to be that overworked creature, the glamour girl. They just want to be themselves-feminine, nice-looking and, above all, individual." This means an air of restrained elegance known...
...however, in the characteristic fashion of diplomats, everybody tried to look the other way, as if nothing had happened. India withdrew, thereby averting a second damaging vote, this time in the General Assembly. The Assembly passed the U.S. "two-sides" plan 43-5, with ten abstaining. Russia was permitted, 55-1, to join the conference "if the other side desires." Menon told the Assembly that he and Lodge were "great friends." Lodge said that Menon was "the great representative of the great leader of a great nation." The U.S. promised to back India's Mme. Pandit as the next...
Lingering Malaise. But though the government in fact had yielded much, it did so in such niggardly and haggling fashion and with such a desire to minimize its concessions that the non-Communist unions (the Catholic C.F.T.C. and the Socialist Force Ouvrière) could not show a spectacular victory. The workers went back to their jobs dissatisfied, in many cases receptive to the Communist accusation that they had been "betrayed." The strike was over, but the malaise lingered...