Word: skirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, Betty Grable has to wear a few clothes; in fact, during the French court scenes, she has to wear a hoop skirt. Such superfluous drapery is the worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer...
...Eddie Cantor's five daughters, and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 24, Hollywood antique dealer, a son, their first child. Eddie Cantor's first grandson; in Hollywood, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: Michael. In Boston, Grandfather Cantor, 46, dashed back on the stage in a short skirt and golden wig he had been wearing in impersonation of Shirley Temple, popped his doorknob eyes, screamed his glad news to 5,000 cheering customers...
WATS. The female uniform most often seen tramping about the British countryside is the khaki of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (tunic, skirt, a cap that has upfolded ear-protecting flaps). Formed in 1938, the WATS are a revival of War I's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -the celebrated and occasionally indiscreet WAACs who went to France 57,000 strong under Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (later Darned...
Shoulders are vaguely broader. Bosoms conform to high, lifted lines. Everyone agrees on the minute waist line. Full skirts-"the bouncing, double, swing skirt"-are shorter, straight moulded skirts are longer. The steatopygous bustle is definitely...
...Kilt-style skirt worn over shorts (already fashionable among Florida's rich beach boys...