Word: petunia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edna L. Bernstein would like to get $350 for a portrait of a petunia. George Constant, who painted zinnias and blue crabs, would take any reasonable offer...
...pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with magenta, plum, Tommy Atkins red, petunia, rich blues and deep greens or turn innocently romantic in swirls of 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...