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In time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard...
Buckles & Boots. Teen-age styles are also changing. Everywhere, the girls seem to be wearing hip-hugging skirts, shorter and far tighter than last year. Sloppy sweaters are on the way out, tighter ones topped with ropes of imitation pearls on the way in. Said one San Francisco high-school...
The New Look was already old hat. The great wheel of fashion was turning onward from the bustling '90s to the tubular '20s: the new line was boyish and slim. U.S. dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge...
By the end of World War I, the rush to put women in ads was on. Coca-Cola used a black-haired beauty and a kitten. Holeproof Hosiery pioneered cheesecake by lifting skirts and showing legs. Chesterfield made shocking history by subtly inciting women to smoke: a flapper cuddled up...
American buyers last week thronged thirstily around the bars at the Ritz and Crillon, gossiped knowingly of new, narrowed skirts, shorter day dresses and a new emphasis on black, green and yellow. Then, five days before the show, 12,000 of Paris' 20,000 midinettes* laid down their needles...