Word: styling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
...wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
...ignoring style changes, says the magazine in summation, the Russian "has made a defiant gesture at class consciousness that fails absolutely. Actually he would be a great deal wiser to follow modern fashion in its entirety or invent a completely different form of dress. His humdrum neatness, coupled with naive mistakes, merely gives him a bourgeois look...
Couturier Jacques Fath, in Dallas to accept a fashion prize from the Neiman-Marcus store, got all dressed up in native costume (Western-style plaid shirt by Jacques Fath, glass-studded white leather belt by Neiman-Marcus, blue denim britches by Sears, Roebuck). Concluding that the U.S. square dance is "wonderful, wonderful," he announced that Paris would hear of the sport just as soon as he got home...
...Paris' newspaper Le Figaro wondered, "exhausted to the point where a new tone scale should take its place?" Or was it still possible "to discover new expressions and new harmonies" inside the old scale? In short, had musical composition become "a problem of vocabulary or a problem of style?" Last week, after mailing questionnaires to French composers to find out, Le Figaro had some answers...