Word: ostriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwardian pinks and blues. Frills and furbelows on skirts pop out in ruffled peplums and billowy bustles. ¶ Fripperies to complete the rich elegance of "Edwardian and earlier" include cameo brooches, heavy rhinestone trinkets, voluptuous oversize imitation pearls, exotic velvet shoulder flowers for evening and feathers of all kinds- ostrich, bird and barnyard - on boas, capes, muffs and epaulets which are snap-fastened to evening frocks. ¶ Hats concede only their trimmings (fur & feathers) to the Mae West furor and are mostly peaked berets, low-crowned sailors, draped turbans. Stylists noted particularly that : Maggy Rouff plumps for small Victorian basque...
Flabella Sirs: TIME was correct in stating "ostrich-plumed flabella" in its account of the procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi as opposed to accuracy- loving Fraser Nairn who insists that they were peacock fans. Recent newsreels of the event prove that. Perhaps Mrs. Drexel's peacock-feathered flabella have been retired. However, her gift to the pontiffs was conspicuously absent on this occasion. JOHN E. P. MclLVAINE Minneapolis, Minn...
...your issue of June 26 you mention the Feast of Corpus Christi at St. Peter's, and in speaking of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI you state: "Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella...
...interest of accuracy, these flabella are not ostrich plumes but are peacock feathers and were presented to the Popes by an American, Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel of Philadelphia, of the famous banking family of that name...
...Dwight Fiske's book, all the characters-except a preposterous old woman from Boston (where Without Music should be banned) who goes to Egypt and allows herself to be waylaid by an ostrich-lead decadent sex lives. Characteristically deplorable is the case of Clarissa the Flea who traveled from Vera Cruz to New York on an old tramp. Spanish and nervous, she had no difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior...