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Died. Gretchen von Briesen (Mrs. Salomon Stanwood) Menken, 58, most overdressed woman in Manhattan cafe society; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Nearly every year, since 1924, Mrs. Menken dazzled the Beaux-Arts Ball with her costumes. As "Rain," she carried a set of batteries beneath her skirt to light 1,500 tiny bulbs sprinkled on her dress, wore a red neon headgear which flashed intermittent lightning. As "The Empire State Building Plans'' she wore T-squares and French scrolls around her neck, pencils and empty India ink bottles on her hat. For the New York World...
...which few Harvard men in the stands ever recalled. At least three of the plays would have been touchdown romps from long distances, but on each occasion Frank, playing all over the field, made the tackle. Then, from the 14-yard line, tailback Frank Foley started an end skirt which saw him outdash the exhausted Frank and cross the goal line standing...
...presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning corners...
...only as weeks go by and a certain number of the high-priced creations, paraded last week, begin to appear, in copies, on millions of U. S. women. A few broad trends were seen, however, by practiced observers. At the end of the week unofficial tabulations revealed that the skirt, so far as length was concerned, was precisely where the summer left it - 13½ to 15½ in. from the ground. But full skirts, ranging from a gentle flare for daytime to romantic yard age for evening, were common, and observers who have watched this trend develop for several...
Newer but not likely to become a fashion for another season or so was the "tubular" skirt with a slight flare at the knees...