Word: monteil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build morale. . . . It won't help a fighting man. . . . It won't help preserve our way of life. . . . All Monteil's fine lipstick will do is to make you look prettier. If it's Victory you want . . . BETTER BUY BONDS...
...dress business has been partly synthetic, partly real. Manhattan's fashion world has plenty of adroit and imaginative designers of its own - some (like Bergdorf Goodman's Ethel Frankau, Saks Fifth Avenue's Sophie Gimbel) custom designers of exclusive models; others (like Nettie Rosenstein, Germaine Monteil) adapters of style to the mass-produced items that have made the average U. S. woman the best-dressed average woman in the world. But the U. S. dress business, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh, is atomic, leaderless, cutthroat, jealous of itself. Its genius is mass production; its best designers have...