Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Designer McCardell, garments must have a reason. After shivering on shipboard during a transatlantic trip in a flimsy, French-designed evening wrap she turned out a wrap in tweed. She went skiing, got cold ears, did a wool-jersey hood. After lugging a trunk and five suitcases around Europe, she decided to save space by making dresses in parts, switching the pieces around for variety-a bare top and covered-up top, for example, to be worn alternately with shorts, slacks or short or long skirts. That was one of the fashion world's first important experiments with "separates...
...most people the starched white uniforms worn by nurses all look alike-but not to nurses. They are well aware that since Florence Nightingale tended the Crimea wounded in a long, grey tweed wrapper, nurses' uniforms have followed fashion from the Gibson-girl shirtwaist to the pencil-slim sheath. To nurses, the top designer and dressmaker is Manhattan's White Swan Uniforms, Inc. Last week White Swan brought out a fat new catalogue with 98 attractive styles. Newest additions to the line: a high-busted, low-waisted Dior-like model that could almost double as a cocktail dress...
...full effect of the Jacksonian idea was felt in 1846, when New York State switched to an elective judiciary-and paved the way for the reign of Boss Tweed. Other states followed suit, and as Judge Vanderbilt says, the "judges campaigned for judicial office in the hustings with the other candidates of the political parties from sheriff to hog reeve." Today all the judges of 36 states are elected political officers...
Stating that "no party can claim a monopoly on political virtue," DeSapio said "any representations to the contrary are insults to the public intelligence." He pointed to Teapot Dome as an example of Republican corruption, paralleling the Tweed ring in New York...
...lovely shoulders but no chest. Grace is like Bergman in the 'clean' way. She can do that smush stuff in movies like-remember all those little kisses in Rear Window?-and get away with it." A friend remembers her at this period as "terribly sedate, always wore tweed suits and a hat-with-a-veil kind of thing. She had any number of sensible shoes, even some with those awful flaps on front." She did TV commercials ("I was terrible-honestly, anyone watching me give the pitch for Old Golds would have switched to Camels"), doggedly made...