Word: hems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather the audience supplies the message. When Peter's father refuses hem $200 bail and lets him cool off for a night in jail, parents in the theatre break into spontaneous applause; just what the young punk needs! Teenagers, certain that it's just what he doesn't need, hoot...
...soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in severe white dresses cut three inches above the knee and white, mid-calf boots open at the toe. The highflying hem was born. The French Vogue and Elle devoted so much space to Courrèges that Coco Chanel took offense, threatened leading French fabric houses that if they bought ads in the magazines, she would "never buy another centimeter of cloth." Stormed she: "They showed Courrèges and spoke...
...pique while ironing the endless flounces and bows on her two daughters' party dresses. In the eight years since she went to work for the Eisemans, Mrs. Nelson has had an important hand both in originating styles and in practical innovations like the "add-a-hem" (an ingenious scheme by which hems may be progressively lowered over a four-inch span, simply by pulling one of a series of threads...
...tiny Chelsea workroom, emerged looking more like Cossacks and guardsmen, sailors and hockey players. Audacious in concept, vivid in execution and realistically priced ($20 and up), Mary Quant's offbeat styles (a typical dress trimmed red flannel with black lace, included a striped bodice and a quilted hem) caused such a local stir that buyers hurried over from abroad. Today, with a posh London office, a vast European market, and outlets in 45 American department stores, Mary Quant is a $3,000,000-a-year business...
...like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...