Word: headdressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a chain restaurant like La Crepe would promenade its waitresses in French costume and headdress to impersonate an intimate cafe. The effort, needless to say, fails miserably...
...what was worn by emperors and ordinary folk during the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Silk is the predominant fabric; even beggars wear it, but with patches. Monarchs always wear yellow gowns embroidered with dragons; women of the higher classes, long skirts concealing their feet. Anyone without a headdress is presumed to be in great danger-and, in fact, may already have been beaten...
...couldn't find any Arabs," explained Manhattan Talent Agent Steve Kaye. His firm had been commissioned to find a model for a photo that would show an Arab holding a gasoline hose. The theme: "Arab Oil Squeeze." Kaye volunteered his own bearded, dark visage and even provided a headdress−one that he had bought, of course, in Israel, where his brother lives on a kibbutz...
Only a chain restaurant like La Crepe would promenade its waitresses in French costume and headdress to impersonate an intimate cafe. The effort, needless to say, fails miserably...
...easy to forget the gyrating girl in a glowworm mini, all surging emotion boiling up through swirls of curses and Southern Comfort in a Dixie cup. Or the single vivid impression recorded in the mind's eye that, without the scalding voice and tremulous ostrich plume headdress, she was really rather small...