Word: shirtwaisted
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...dress manufacturers of Seventh Avenue think that shirtwaist dresses are the answer, they are crazy. This style is frumpy. It is blatantly obvious that since the midi fiasco most of Seventh Avenue is grabbing at anything, hoping something will work...
...Nixon was one of the pluses in her husband's campaign for the presidency. With the cloth coat and shirtwaist dresses, she added a humanizing grace to Nixon's race against John F. Kennedy. But in the eight years that separated the two Nixon presidential campaigns, Pat Nixon changed. The bitter defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial race and the long road back left their marks. During the 1968 campaign, she was little more than a speaker's platform mannequin, hair carefully coiffed, legs properly crossed at the ankles, the smiles and pattering applause from her gloved...
Starting at the bottom, her girdle ($15) and bra-slip ($18) are signed by Emilio Pucci, her stockings, a symphony in mesh Vs, by Valentino. On the outside, looking In, there is Gucci's leather-bound shirtwaist dress, interwoven with an all-over pattern of the letter G-with matching luggage, no less. In scarves, conspicuous consumers can go the whole hog with the full names of Rudi Gernreich ($12), Donald Brooks ($22), or Geoffrey Beene ($28), or compromise-as Chester Weinberg did-with a silk strip spelling the first and more esthetic half of his name...
...from a Greenwich Village tea party to witness the grisly Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which killed 146 working women. She redoubled her efforts for the league and successfully pushed factory reforms in New York state, pulling working hours for women down to a then unprecedented maximum of 54 hours a week. In 1919, Governor Al Smith appointed her to the state's Industrial Commission and warned Roosevelt in 1929, "You'd better not let her get away from...
...Irish nationalist from Galway. she was born in Concord, N.H., in 1890, educated in Bronx schools, and became a Socialist at 15 under her mother's maiden name of Gurley. A slim, blue-eyed girl with soft brown hair who wore a flaming red tie around her shirtwaist collar, she demanded among other things that all children be supported by the Government, thus freeing women of dependence...