Word: mannequin
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...show of feline claws as the fat cats of the fashion world crowded in among the models like subway riders in a rush hour. Some fashion writers found Coco's long-skirted, severely tailored designs "tacky." A plain navy suit was modeled, wrote one, "by a brunette mannequin who was with Chanel 20 years ago. In the respectful silence you could almost hear the jaws dropping." The writer for Le Figaro observed: "It was touching; one might have thought oneself back in 1925." But in the midst of all the scratching and meowing, one U.S. fashion expert detected...
...Mannequins & Skaters. The way out was Oak Park, Mich.'s Palmer Paint Co., which he bought with a down payment of $4,000 that he had saved (and $4,000 he borrowed from friends). With two full-time employees and a part-time office girl, the company grossed $2,500 a month selling poster paint to artist supply houses. "I saw right off the bat," says Klein, "that the field was too confined." He soon expanded it by selling his paints to mannequin makers and skating rinks (for painting designs under ice). "Well, today we are a big supplier...
...Fonssagrives. Both soon gave up dancing, he to be a photographer, she to be a model. She tripped into the profession by chance: a young photographer asked her to pose for him. The results were sensational. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar fought to get her services as a mannequin; she has worked for both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown while hanging on to the Eiffel...
...Manhattan's George Magnani, president of Magnani Mannequins, displayed a fashion dummy that talks. Named Patty Petiteen, the mannequin will plug dresses for the ten to 14 age group. Sample sales talk: "Mother loves my Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies...
Wise old Yard squirrels mindful of the crazy antics of prewar initiatees went right on sunning themselves yesterday noon when four Puritans, one Indian and a mannequin trooped through their precincts trumpeting sour renditions of College songs...