Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display, reported New York Timesman Harrison E. Salisbury, was an evening gown with a white satin bodice and floor-sweeping skirt of rainbow-hued pleats, which "brought a hush of silence over the shoppers." The hush was under standable, since the white satin of the bodice was priced at the equivalent of $34 a yard, the crepe de Chine pastels of the skirt at $27.50 (wage of average Russian: $175 a month). At an opulent lilac negligee lined with white silk and with a white ruffed collar, said Salisbury, "an old peasant in a sheepskin cap and coat ... stared...
Specifically, the Central charged that the sale by Young's Alleghany Corp. of its Chesapeake & Ohio stock holdings to Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton was just a trick to skirt the ICC rules, that Young and Alleghany still control the line. C. & 0. Board Chairman Eaton, said the Central, had obligingly sold the C. & O.'s 800,000 shares of Central stock, which had been held by a trustee, to Young's millionaire friends Sid Richardson...
...almost overnight, the women of Paris, followed sheeplike by the women of the world, turned from Coco to the invader from Italy, with her exaggerated feminine conceits, her tassels, her flaming colors and "parachute" silhouettes. "Chanel wanted the tricot sailor frock with the long sweater, the short skirt," says Schiaparelli. "I took the frock. I altered the line . . . Voilà! Chanel ees feeneesh...
...body that way, and so we make our garments the way girdle-and brassière-makers do. They fit so well it's not necessary to wear a brassiere." As for the bathing suits themselves, Designer Schnurer helped force "women to stop wearing those great big dressmaker-skirt bathing suits" and don one-piece suits...
...wedding outfit : "A going-away costume of a very dark green dress, and jacket the same, a hat, the same, trimmed with a pink feather. The first thing I had on was a chemise, then my corsets, a corset waist, a pair of pantsies, a little flannel skirt, the bustle, a white skirt, then the dress. The dress was made with a skirt lining and wigging stitched on up to the knees, and the dress cloth went over that, a long skirt reaching to the floor. Then an overskirt over that, that reached the floor and was tucked...