Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest attraction in the masculine Merry Mite clothes is the tricky use of seams, suspenders and tabs (see cut), which allow them to be let out easily so the clothes can "grow" with the wearer (e.g., pleated "sesame seams" on shirts, running from front to back, can be sheared open to make the shirt larger and sleeves longer). The clothes are more expensive (10 to 20%) than other children's clothes. But Designer Geissmann figures that their trim appearance and longer usefulness make them worth...
John Harburger and Frederic Hirst-known collectively as John-Frederics, creators of costly millinery trifles-ambiguously declared that Joan Crawford is positively Hollywood's "sexiest hat wearer." Maria Montez, they confided, is the "maddest...
...relative of the meter that you described in the article is the Gamma Ray Pocket Dosimeter. Latest models are no b.rger than a fountain pen. They are worn with a clip in the pocket, and indicate at any time during the day the total quantity of radiation that the wearer has absorbed and so whether it is safe to continue at work. (DR.) O. G. LANDSVERK Chicago...
Since Victoria's day her Empire has come on troubled times. The Crown itself has lost its last remaining ounce of direct political power.* But what the Crown has lost in weight, it has gained in glamor. Princess Elizabeth, who will be the next wearer-unless her parents, most improbably, have a son-shows no more sign of greatness than the young Victoria did. She is not required to be great; she is expected to be gracious...
...Gentleman: "Oh, I admire them, of course. Only I have such a dread of stepping on them and bringing down the wrath of the fair wearer on my devoted head...