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Notable among the allegorical figures was "Gloom," garbed in long black veil and sweeping Gay Nineties feathers, who delivered dire predictions ("Slump and boom, slump and boom, is the rhythm of your doom"). There was also "Black Market" in a Piccadilly zoot suit; he offered his wares "out o' patriotism so as ter keep the owld country goin'," Central character was "Fear" (entwined from head to toe by a prop serpent), who declaimed: "Of all lands, my favorite and pet is England, blitzed and starving and in debt...
...into a picture. It reflects his infatuation with twining arabesques, but they are tempered by a Northern severity, a love of right angles and straight lines. The figure of his odalisque is ruthlessly reshaped to fit the pattern, regardless of anatomy and proportion, and still has charm enough to veil every deformity...
...strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
...dressmakers tried hard to turn out eye-catching eccentricities. Dior showed knee-length gaiters (see cut). A Schiaparelli handout gushed: "What could be more heartening to a world in crisis than a face veil tumbled over with roses?" Another Schiaparelli heartener: fire-engine red stockings shouting out from under petticoats that hung six inches below dress hems. Jacques Fath had his own private eccentricity; he slit his narrow skirts up the rear, to a point well above the back of the knees. From the bow, one of his bridal dresses looked as sleek as a racing sloop. Viewed from...
...Veil. 86. In The Farmer's Daughter, Joseph Gotten and Ethel...