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Word: fredrica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollar volume. Fur Pants. Another place where the luxury look shows up is in the rising popularity of elegant casual costumes. Many top fashion houses are showing jacket-and-trouser sets to be worn to cheer the tired executive after a hard day at the office. Variations range from Fredrica Furs' $1,195 nutria car coat with pants of hamster fur (retail price of pants: $195) to Designer Lisa Fonssagrive's Edwardian smoking jacket and pants (see cut) of muted-green velveteen piped in mauve (retail price: $125). Another costume from the same designer, onetime top U.S. fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Salable Fall Styles | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other creations: a $15,000 sable-lined raincoat, a $65,000 sable greatcoat, and a $5,000 Fredrica-designed strapless mink sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Comeback | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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