Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's clothes, the bathing suit has worn best through the ups and downs of high fashion; 1947 brought the Bikini, and no one has quite been able to top that. But last week, as it has come to dresses, coats, suits and negligees, the chemise came to bathing suits...
Almost every top bathing-suit designer has an entry in the new line (see cuts). Cole of California, which grew fast on suits to let in the sun, is adding two chemise bathing suits that keep it out as effectively as any Gay Nineties rig. Designer Rose Marie Reid is putting a complete collection of voluminous prints and stripes with "stay-down legs" and tummy-hiding overblouses into 4,800 U.S. stores; Manhattan's Margaret Pennington, who specializes in hand-loomed suits, is selling 500 chemise swim suits monthly to such high-fashion stores as California...
...practically become synonymous with fighting. Last week Pabst reluctantly sponsored one more fight-the first proxy fight in its 94-year history. The ring was a igth-floor hall in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. In one corner was short, pudgy Pabst President and Chairman Harris Perlstein, wearing grey suit, tan shoes and grey tie. In the other, the challengers: Robert and David Pabst, the grandsons of the Pabst founder, Fred Pabst, and Otto and Carl Spaeth, son and grandson respectively of the founder of Premier Malt, which bought out Pabst...
...copies make A Summer Place an automatic bestseller. With serialization in McCall's ($100.000) and a Hollywood sale ($500,000 plus 25% of the profits), the book is as good a property as the oil wells Wilson bought with his earnings from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. There is a touch of poetic justice about Sloan Wilson's success, for he used to be far more fascinated by business than by the writing game, once dreamed of making his fortune in soybeans. (He was born into a Connecticut literary family, and his financial fancies, he thinks...
...like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet: he does not own a gray flannel suit ("I won't have one in the house"), although clothiers have offered to outfit him with enough gray flannel suits "to last a lifetime...