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Missfit. In Camp Edwards, Mass., 280-lb. Sergeant Louis Fosburgh ordered a pair of summer pants, size 46, received a smartly tailored WAC skirt, size...
...from such material have revolutionized the traditional costume of many a district. Where peasant women from time immemorial have clung to black & white, they now dress in yellow, green, red or blue. It is not uncommon to see a girl dressed in a British Army shirt, a yellow parachute skirt...
Reported Dead. Paul Poiret, 65, onetime dictator of fashion; in Paris. In 1898 he quit his job as umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots...
Women in the Gilberts have never been wholly converted to the mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...
...mission here were not so secret we could say more.... Five minutes silent meditation for the Critchlowean restriction of the spirited rendition entitled "Ding Dong Daddy." We'll hum it in your honor, K. K.... And while we're on the subject, may we apply for the grass skirt on the left for the Regimental...