Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-equipped barber shop, log fires throughout the winter and pleasant surroundings, in the rooms go far toward making the Union useful as a club. But most outstanding is the Union Dining Hall...
...Worth came to Paris from London in the middle of the last century, found himself the man of the hour in the attempt of the Empress Eugénie to restore the magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none of him. And Eugénie, expecting the Prince Imperial, declined to swathe...
...gowns. Unexpected darts and seams, giving perfect lines to a dress, are the despair of copyists and imitators. In her salon of Lalique glass, with heroic figures of women in Vionnet models decorating the walls, mannequins display her triumphs of cutting and sewing. But before a gown leaves her shop, she marks it with her fingerprint, a safeguard against imitation...
...find the most classic models of Worth, the most daring of Vionnet's designs, reproduced in many a U. S. department store. Instead of paying $500 for a sports costume by Chanel, they will pay $200 or $300 for a replica of the same costume in a Manhattan shop. For Paris dressmakers have found no way to prevent copying of their creations. Madame Charlotte made but 1,000 of the 1,000,000 copies of La Garçonne. As simplicity is the vogue in Paris, U. S. copyists may turn out French designs for $50 or $75. Even...
From Detroit, last week, sailed the motorship Lake Ormoc, carrying hospital equipment, an experimental laboratory, machine shop, refrigerating plant, provisions for two years. Its destination: Santarem, Brazil, a river port 100 miles north of Henry Ford's new 5,000,000 acre rubber plantation. In ten years, Mr. Ford's experts hope the plantation will yield 6,000,000,000 pounds of rubber annually, enough to make 1,000,000,000 Ford tires...