Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher in the modern age of sensuous, nonconfining women's clothing...
...infinite variety, the new T shirts are printed to order by the thousands with a picture or slogan that reflects the wearer's whims and wheezes, concerns, complaints, sentiments (SHARING MAKES YOU SMILE INSIDE), politics, and anything else he or she may want to proclaim, profess or promote. Thanks to novel techniques, notably a fast-heat pressure press that can transfer to a T shirt any picture, design or message in full color, major department stores such as Manhattan's Macy's and Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott and hundreds of small T shops across...
...tefillin, the phylacteries that Orthodox Jewish males over 13 must wear on their foreheads and left arms (near the heart) during weekday prayer. The tefillin-two small leather boxes containing scriptures similar to those in the mezuzah and wound on with leather thongs-are a sign that the wearer subjugates his heart and mind to God. Wrapping on the tefillin for the first time is the high point of the Jewish religious initiation for males, the bar mitzvah ceremony. When an uninitiated Jewish male drops by a Mitzvah Mobile, the Lubavitchers show him how to wrap the tefillin, pray with...
...store in New York has a version with a peek-through top. Cole of California Executive Jack Healy claims that his firm has "engineered the String differently so it will be wearable." The rear half of the unrefined Rio version, Healy says, "keeps creeping toward the center, and the wearer has to tug at it all the time...
...that at 38, Engman is too young to remember the golden age of radio during the '30s when a whole generation of Americans grew up sending away for Little Orphan Annie's secret-society badges, Tom Mix's fabulous "mirror ring" (without turning his head, the wearer could see if he was being tracked), and Jack Armstrong's whistle ring, which sounded like a tiny siren and came with its own secret code...