Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normally wears a toupee over thinning hair, but he had just shaved his scalp for a cool vacation, and the toupee had nothing to cling to. So Fire-Horse Sparks rushed off without it, had a hair-curling time persuading Hong Kong immigration officials that he was really the fur-bearing man pictured on his passport. Snorted Sparks last week: "I don't see now why I was in such a hurry." Indeed, it looked as if Sparks's hair would have plenty of time to grow back before he and a dozen other newsmen, comfortably beached...
...extremes that Paris dreams up are not the bulk of what Paris turns out. But the excitement over the new 1958 fashions last week was all about the extremes: long, telescopic dresses, tubular coats, enormous, helmetlike fur hats. The styles were so odd, in fact, that the Women's News Service syndicate hired Fashion Expert Iris Hartman, sister-in-law of Dance Satirist Paul Hartman, who took one horrified look and reported: not the New Look, the Mummy Look or the Kept Woman Look, but clothes that looked toadlike. Headlined the New York Journal-American: IT'S GRUESOME...
...Jacques Heim's fur-lined hems-ticklish, but more practical than fur garters for those who like warmth around the knees...
...heavy fur hats-you keep these on at cocktail parties and you get hotheaded fast...
...cinemoguls once frothed when Lana Turner let slip to an interviewer that she had five TV sets, and Beverly Hills Furrier Al Teitlebaum had a customer who, aspiring to dramatize his contempt, ordered a TV set covered in skunk fur. Now TV sets glitter within Romanoff's and during lunchtime in the executive dining rooms of major studios, where the executives claim they use TV for casting ideas. Jack Benny has seven sets. TV exerts such a spell on movie stars-especially when it happens to be showing their old films-that it has rendered the movie colony housebound...