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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designer of the mass-producing Seventh Avenue factories, was going in for padding and long skirts. Seventh Avenue's Harriet Harra went even further with a "wraparound" cocktail suit which would have made an Egyptian mummy feel at home. But Russian-born, beautiful Valentina (Mme. George Schlee) was almost as conservative as Sophie. Her hems were down slightly and her décolletage was down a lot. Said Valentina: "The bozoom ees half-exposed, jost enoff to cover the-you know." Many a small-fry designer was trying so desperately to get everything Parisian into one dress that some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Counter-Revolution | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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