Word: poiret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Poiret, Paris Couturier: "Writing in the January Forum, I prophesied that women, led by the U.S., will soon be wearing trousers. 'And,' said I, 'they will not be a mere short-lived fad; they will become as inevitable as bobbed hair, which is here to stay.' I accompanied my pronouncement with sketches of prospective trouser-designs: The 'Shepherd,' the 'Charleston,' the 'Elastic Sheath...
...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...
...Paris, Paul Poiret, famed dressmaker, declared modern male fashions "disgusting," "unmentionable," "like sausages," "like notaries," suggested for day wear in Summer "loose garments made of light materials which would feel as if they did not exist . . . trousers of an ethereal cut; for the evening, huge velvet capes that would fall into graceful folds...
...Flats, by drowning. After a perusal of the Sunday editions to find out who really did what in the Stadium, one is convinced that there were other heroes of the game beside Captain Hubbard or Captain Mallory; or, from a sartorial point of view, J. August or Paul Poiret. These unsung heroes were the humble souls who took up their position on the Anderson Bridge and just outside the gates of Soldiers' Field to offer for sale short sections of vani-colored oilcloth...
Then the king landed. He was met by a camera of the True News Corporation, and a small committee of welcome. The welcome was satisfactory but "la mode" was not. The latest importations had stimulated American industry but M. Poiret did not like them. He strongly objected to the popular French perfume and the most costly Parisien hats. "American women have not ze sense of beauty: Zey do not even like monkey...