Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchandisers. To his seventh Fashion Merchandising Clinic in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre went 100 store buyers, advertising and sales managers. "More lady-like than ever-and certainly gay," said Amos Parrish last week. "Women will look taller this fall. . . . And of course they will not be wearing their hats on the backs of their heads. Fashion is now tilting her hat forward over the right eye." Alert, keen, Forecaster Parrish senses style trends like a hound after a badger. From chart records of styles for the last ten years, from reports of scouts stationed on street corners...
When the Empress Eugénie hat reappeared cautiously last spring the style world took a guess. It was a saucy fillip to be followed by surprises. U. S. department store buyers, fashion reporters, newsgatherers, sweltering in a Paris hot spell, dodged traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera...
...hat itself that was so important in the Salons last week. Extreme, its popularity may soon become a waning fad. More important was what the couturiers had pulled out of the hat to go with it. Wrote one exuberant correspondent: "This diminutive object of fashion has exerted sufficient influence within less than a month to change the entire trend of styles for the last 100 years." Some of the trends...
...honor to Siegfried Wagner, who died a year ago, a pre-Festival performance of his comic opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld (Blame It All on a Little Hat) was given in the old rococo Margrave's Opera. Came many a Wagnerite, including Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and buxom Frau Wagner who with her four children carries on the dynasty...
...family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn is thought of as a Morgan company in Wall Street but the connection is not apparent...