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Word: monteil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ad-of-the-Week | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOTHES: Home Styles | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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