Word: pucker
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...lower price ranges inquire about shrinkage and try to find a fabric which will wear well. Higher priced garments have better quality interlinings which make a difference after being worn for a year and dry cleaned. A better coat will be more likely to fit smoothly and not pucker, too. In plaid sport coats, the plaid will be cut so that the sleeves match horizontally with the body of the coat...
After 106 years of peddling milk and ice cream, the Borden Co. next month will move into pickles too. When Borden's acquires a Michigan pickle firm called Aunt Jane's Foods, no mouths will pucker in the modest Madison Avenue building from which robust Borden President Harold W. Comfort, 66, bosses an operation stretching from Argentina to Australia. Milk and milk products still account for 73% of Borden's sales, but Borden's has diversified so widely-into everything from applesauce to acetylene, wall coverings to wax beans-that no one is surprised any longer...
Bravo to the author of "cocktail kissing" [Oct. 19]. It was one of the truest and funniest articles I've read in TIME. But now I'll never be able to pucker against a cheekbone without bursting out laughing...
...Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material. There is not a seam to be seen, or to cut, bind or pucker. "The first big fashion bolt of the season," cried the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, and its makers were ecstatically suggesting that the day was not far off when all milady's garments, from girdles to gowns, would be made of seamless moldable cloth...
...Jack Worthing, Michael Redgrave alternates between dignity and degeneration, as he commutes between his country home and city apartment. Richard Wattis, his face, in an interminable, self-satisfied pucker, also has a dual identity, keeping the two separate with a bit more verve than Redgrave. Joan Greenwood and Dorothy Tutin are the befuddled fiances of the two slightly dishonest gentlemen. Both are ridiculously prim and appropriately fatuous...