Word: trousseau
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...fact that Britain was engaging the French army hotly in battle over the Spanish succession did not deter George I from ordering a whole Paris trousseau for his daughter-in-law. Marie Antoinette's dressmaker, Rose Bertin, maintained Paris' reputation for extravagant whims, and after the Revolution, aristocratic ladies carried on with the macabre fancy of dressing 'àa la victime,' their hair shorn off as in preparation for the guillotine and their necks bound by a thin red ribbon to simulate the cut of the knife. Trade thrived, and soon Louis' chief minister...
...Festival production that opens next Wednesday. Since the wedding will take place right in the middle of the show's run--a press agent's dream but a bride-to-be's headache--Shirley is currently rehearsing ten hours a day at Sanders and spending her evenings buying a trousseau...
Downtown on the Ginza, a big department store was doing a hotcakes business in a $3,000 "bride's special" -wedding kimono, TV set, gas range, refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, trousseau and a supply of salad dressing -while the enterprising hotelkeepers of Atami, Japan's Niagara Falls, offered special rates on honeymoon suites with "a bathtub just big enough for two." November is Japan's traditional wedding season,* and with 700,000 couples either wed or affianced, this year's season promises to be perhaps the biggest since World...
...telephoned the families of the four men to say that the Air Force would fly them to Honolulu for a reunion. After the big Air Force Constellation carrying the families landed at Hickam, the first passenger out of the door was Judith Heller, who had gathered together a whole "trousseau" for the reunion. She paused, looked at the husband she had not seen for 34 months, and gasped. From the throat of Airman Heller there came a choked cry, and then he bounded up the steps toward his wife...
...dignified, authentic journal of society, fashion, and the ceremonial side of life," Vogue covered Manhattan's glittering social life with rapt attention. Thus the big story of 1895 was the marriage between Consuelo Vanderbilt and the young Duke of Marlborough. For its readers, Vogue carefully described the Vanderbilt trousseau: "The markings consist of the name 'Consuelo' embroidered on the nightgowns, chemises and corset covers on the left side, while on the drawers it adorns the left knee." For the new rich there was advice on etiquette. Sample: "A word about the treatment of servants. One should always...