Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boyish and slim. U.S. dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge, trainlike attachments and bathing suit tops. There was a host of minor gimmicks: the boyish haircut, jagged at the edges; the sleek "attenuated siren look"; huge black fur muffs; long umbrellas; Edwardian gloves; the lacquered evening "back-of-the-head bandeau"; Eton collars; the coal scuttle; the Picasso bicorne...
...ankle. Just about everything that goes into a woman's bureau drawer or hangs in her closet comes from this compact, 23-block area that runs north from 34th Street to Times Square, west from Broadway to Ninth Avenue. Flanking it to the south is the U.S. fur center, seven noisome streets. On its eastern border are the millinery shops where half of U.S. ladies' hats are fashioned...
...Boston, some stores were selling fur coats with an offer to refund the 20% excise tax if & when Congress repeals...
...businessmen in peacetime. After World War II ended, the post exchanges and ships' service stores kept right on selling so many items at less than retail prices that private merchants complained loudly enough for Congress 'to hear them. Military stores, they said, were peddling luxury goods, like fur coats and watches, tax free; groceries were being sold at wholesale prices in direct competition with local merchants, and large numbers of servicemen were buying goods for civilian friends...
...designed to help servicemen buy furniture below retail prices, on the theory that they moved their household effects frequently and that "three moves equals one fire" in wear & tear. Not much furniture was sold, but plenty of orders were filled, many for officers with a taste for diamond rings, fur coats (tax free), sterling silver and automobiles...