Word: vionnet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...styles have a shortage of seductive names. Whereas U.S. stores once unblushingly publicized a Schiaparelli pocket, a Vionnet neck or a Mainbocher waistline in a little $8.75 number, this year they may have to be satisfied with "a deep armhole cut" or equivalent. Exception: fall colors (so numerous that no one color predominates) have names like rose champagne, maharaja bronze, tissue-paper blue...
Saks Fifth Avenue (head designer, Sophie): much ado over Sophie's "plastic seaming," and adaptation of Alix and Vionnet's tiny seams and gores which give a gown a poured-on look; a fitted hiplength, fur-edged jacket after Vermeer; men's tie silk for formal dinner gowns; men's sleeve lining for suit blouses...