Word: paquin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign a contract with the Paris Pattern Co., Inc., by which the magazine has "exclusive right to describe and publish the latest models" supplied each month by 17 tip-top Parisian couturiers, including. Chanel, Lanvin, Poiret, Jane Régny, Lucile, Pre-met, Lenief, Louiseboulanger, Nicole Groult, Worth, Paquin, Jenny, Drecoll-Beer, Redfern, Doeuillet-Doucet, Philippe et Gaston, renée. Said the Ladies' Home Journal for May: "Our patterns are not inspired by Paris, they are not adapted from. Paris; they are actually designed, created and shown in the salons of the French haute couture," Once upon...
...been more and more carefully studied, until now the glittering fashions in enamel, glass, aluminum, mahogany, lacquer, alter as perennially as the styles in silkier clothing; and the famous body-designers? Brewster, Willoughby, Fleetwood, etc.?have achieved a prestige comparable to that of the great dress-makers?Molyneux, Paquin, Poiret, Worth...
...much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...