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...Designer Mary Shannon, fashion stylist for North Carolina's Cone Mills, biggest U.S. maker of denims. She showed that the cloth had unlimited fashion possibilities. The company brought out more than 50 new kinds -stripes, plaids, multicolored combinations. At the 1949 showing, Mrs. Shannon herself appeared in a tailor-made denim dress of her own design, set off delighted murmurs in the trade. By the following year such designers as Brigance and Jane Derby had created rhinestone-studded evening dresses and town clothes of denim. One high-fashion stylist even produced a limited collection of mink-trimmed denim suits...
Johnson, who likes to wear $190 tailor-made suits and takes pride in his gold, diamond-studded cuff links shaped like the map of Texas, abhors formal dress. Recently, when he was dressing for the Gridiron Club dinner, he found to his horror that neither he nor his wife could get his white tie tied properly. In a typical Johnson solution, he telephoned his old Texas friend, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, and rushed two miles to Clark's home to have the Justice...
...situation was tailor-made for the Reds: all over the country, the workers, galled by remorseless price rises, were in a rebellious mood. On Rio's waterfront, dockers by the droves left the government-controlled union, went over to a militant new independent outfit; they refused to do any overtime work until the government started paying bonuses promised last December. Merchant marine officers threatened a strike that would tie up the government's two shipping lines. Even doctors at government institutions in Rio staged a one-day strike. Things were at their worst in São Paulo...
...sense of realism that generally gets the better of his Prussian stubbornness. He gives his young pastors one cardinal maxim: "You must love men as they are, and not wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled out a dwarf cigar at a church meeting, Dibelius' goatee shook. "Nein, Bruder, nein," he said, proffering a cigar...
...Standard even detected a trace of the secret Anglophile in the colonel. "All his life," noted the paper's "Londoner's Diary," "he has had his clothes built in Savile Row, as also did his father. When he has been unable to come to London, a Chicago tailor has taken the colonel's measurements and sent them to London." The Standard also pointed out that by buying with dollars in Britain he gets his tailor-made suits for $112, his handmade shoes for $50, $5 less than Britons pay for them. Nor did the Standard...