Word: zanier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal of fun, and perhaps its intricacies can be explained here. Number one player says, "I went to Treasure Island and I took a shoe." Then the second player repeats all this and adds another item, like a banana or something wilder. It goes on and on and gets zanier and zanier until everybody is laughing so much they can't remember. Before hysterics began however, the bearded guitar player launched a song. Not everybody knew the words, but those who didn't nodded their heads and looked wistful...
There was method in the French madness; the zanier designs were aimed to catch the headlines. But there was also desperation. In two years, 40% of Paris' fashion houses have closed because of soaring costs & taxes and the loss, through currency restrictions, of British sales. Faced with the growing skill of U.S. dressmakers and competition from upstarts in Rome, many French designers are willing to try anything to win back their position as fashion dictators. But their dilemma is as old as the New Look: their clothes are too expensive for the French (who like innovations) and too extreme...