Word: pleats
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Every few years, a fashion gimmick sweeps locustlike out of Paris onto the fields of fad. After the "sack look" and the "trapeze line" came the craze for "culottes"-dress-length pants divided in front by a wide pleat and designed to look like skirts. This year, as the release last week of the first photographs of the Paris fall collections showed, the day of the gimmick has come again. Sequel to the culotte: skirts divided in front by a wide pleat and designed to look like pants...
...suits and dresses, e.g., jackets are shorter this year, a little closer to the body. With scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck and her four fingers firmly together in a characteristic Coco gesture as she pats a new suit in various places, she may say: "Make a pleat here, an intelligent pleat." One of this year's suits was changed 35 times after being made up before Coco was satisfied...
...will feel a fabric, hold it to the light, pull it on the bias, pleat...
...that country which Wellington had left to the French and the Portuguese guerrillas. He could be shocked (as the reader will be) by the cruelty of his guerrilla comrades toward prisoners and the wounded, but the sight and the infliction of death never so much as put a pleat in his brain. The hungry French gratefully killed stray dogs, and roasted rats; Dodd as gratefully subsisted on raw horse liver and roast mule...
Democracies have always built as they fought. Is the modern pattern to adjust the last pleat before inviting the neighbors into the new house...