Word: sarong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattanites had ever seen a temple dance outside of tantalizing glimpses in the movies. For them Devi Dja and her accordion-bellied maidens imitated ancient frescoes, did solemn ritualistic wriggles, proved with deft, complicated gestures that Bali's classic dance is not as simple as a sarong. Between these pantomimes and rituals, the wiry, Balinese youths ritualistically jabbed at each other with crooked knives...
...Read, of the Lampoon, was becomingly attired in a black net afternoon gown with a cream broadbrimmed creation by Bendel, while D. Stuart Friedkin of the CRIMSON salon was inexpressibly soigne in a Polynesian outfit complete with a gay print sarong. Stanley Brown and his Crimsonians played for dancing...
...Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art proudly displayed its latest acquisition: Dorothy Lamour's sarong, donated by Paramount to "stimulate public interest in the museum as a whole...
Since Dorothy Lamour appears in St. Louis Blues, its authors felt obliged to build the suspense around the question of when and how she would get into her inevitable sarong. She does it at night under a hay wagon. Typical shot: Raft's heir to the leading role, Lloyd Nolan, telling Miss Lamour how nice she looks...
...beneath icebergs like a toy boat in a studio tank. Even more characteristic of Western traditions are Spawn of the North's womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater instead of a sarong but with the same effect, as a tough tavern-keeper who will stick to George Raft through thick & thin, no matter what people think...