Word: high-fashion
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...make them for 15?. He rented a small loft, and went to work with his son cutting out patterns. They cribbed their designs from department-store windows, movies, and dress companies, priced their patterns at 15? (and later 25?), while most others sold between 50? and $2. They eschewed high-fashion designs, kept their patterns easy to make. Most important, they printed cutting lines and instructions (in English and Spanish) on each piece of the paper pattern, in contrast to the traditional method of identifying pattern sections only by punched holes...