Word: flappering
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...nothing in fashion is forever. The clothes for spring 2004 responded to that changing climate, forsaking last season's sexy, corseted silhouette for the safer harbor of pretty, soft dresses and colorful, easy sportswear pieces that make consumers feel good. And many of the most popular trends, such as flapper-style dresses and wide-cut pleated pants from designers like Marc Jacobs and Diane von Furstenberg, harked back to carefree moments in American fashion like the jazz age of the late 1920s and early '30s or the sexually liberated...
Model Carolyn Murphy wore a leaf-green vintage Loris Azzaro dress to this year's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala, Dolce & Gabbana covered its flapper frocks in kelly-green fringe, and Roberto Cavalli accented his sport-inspired menswear collection with Astroturf shades. In Hollywood, on the heels of The Hulk comes Shrek 2, slated for release in June 2004, as well as three green pieces in the works: Neverland and Peter Pan, both adaptations of the book, and talk of a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...
...blue tang, among others. Some became scuba divers to study their subjects more closely. They hired a "fabulous fish guy," Adam Summers, professor at the University of California at Irvine, who schooled them in the two types of swimming fish: rowers, who move their fins back and forth, and flappers, who move theirs up and down. By coincidence, Stanton had chosen one of each kind--a rower clown fish and a flapper blue tang--as his leads...
...second wife, Dolly Haas. Dorothy Louise Clara Haas was born, in 1910, in Hamburg to a German mother and an English bookseller father. As a teenager she appeared in "The Mikado," "The Merry Widow," Wedekind's "Franziska" and a Max Reinhardt spectacle. In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif, the child-woman, in about 18 German films, many for writers (Billy Wilder, Curt Siodmak...
First-year Harvard Business School student Emily S. Hoffman, who was shopping yesterday for flapper accessories at a crowded Hootenanny, said she plans to take an exam tomorrow in costume...