Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer skirts, any wise and well-dressed woman knows it is more appealing to conceal rather than reveal...
...known as 'Little Gaither the Money Waster and Woman Chaser.' I thought I was a big shot. Two or three grands on me at all times...
...Chromographs of "Mair Araxi" (Mother Araxi, named after the Arax River, which cuts across the historic kingdom of Armenia) began appearing after the first major Turkish massacres in 1894. The picture shows a woman (usually weeping) seated atop classic ruins named after Armenia's lost provinces. The broken crown at her feet symbolizes the shattered kingdom. In the background rises Mount Ararat, where Noah's Ark came to rest...
...flashy designers go their own gait, and doesn't worry about trying to set a trend. She believes in the maxim that the best-dressed women follow the fashions at a discreet distance. Her style is to be simple and unaffected. Says she: "I try to make a woman look as sexy as possible and yet look like a perfect lady." Many women want to look like that. Consequently, Sophie probably sells more clothes than any other designer, with the possible exception of her archrival, Hattie Carnegie...
...other designers, she constantly combs over the styles of the last 5,000 years. One of her most fertile hunting grounds is the Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied from a man's hunting coat, and 15 dresses and a blouse with a filmy, peekaboo look, copied from a 75-year-old camisole. Sophie is well aware of the limitations of her art, and that styles run in amazingly regular cycles.* The trick...