Word: garmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because she remembered seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because it was so nice and bright. She had thus many small sources of pleasure, inoperative perhaps on deeper intellects, which, added together, made a sort of comfortable wooly garment for her mind...
...theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...this way, startled customers-and the garment industry-were shown a new technique in suitmaking: the "PhotoMetric method." Before long, many a hardheaded textileman thinks, the PhotoMetric method will cause something like a revolution in the men's and women's suit industry by radically changing tailoring methods...
Others on the School Faculty included Augustus Tyler, Political Director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Palmer Weber, Director of Research for the CIO Political Action Committee; and the legislative representatives for both the Massachusetts...
Department stores were already beginning to feel buyer resistance. For the first time in many weeks, sales for the week ending Feb. 14 fell below the corresponding 1947 period. They dropped most in clothing. In New York City the garment trades, which should have been hustling with summer business, were hard hit. Some 10,000 had been laid off or put on part time. "Popular"-priced dress manufacturers reported that their clothes were not popular at all. They blamed the "unreasonable" prices charged at the mills for their cloth. But many mills reported that they were booked solidly through June...