Word: fichus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
Painting was fun for Auguste Renoir all his life long. Women were his never-failing subjects. He painted them in bustles and fichus, gaily sipping aperitifs in cafés along the Seine, waltzing on the crowded floor of the Moulin de la Galette, undressing, getting out of bed, bathing, fixing their hair, sunning themselves naked. His brushes gloated over their rosy curves, imparted to their flesh a luminous, porcelainlike transparency unequaled since the days of Rubens...
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