Word: corset
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...next few years, Dubuffet worked the back streets of Paris, painting little bistros and corset shops, jazz combos, and a host of men and women in the misery of routine (Woman Removing Her Chemise, Gallant Woman Removing Her Panties). There were also closeups of earth and paintings resembling graffiti, the rude scribblings found on walls throughout the ages. In 1944 Dubuffet got his first Paris show. Even for a city that had just been liberated, this was almost too much freedom to bear...
...February to remove a metal plate. Last rites were administered. But this time, after two weeks abed, recovery was rapid. Total time spent in the hospital or convalescing: seven months. Today, the only vestige of the spinal problem is that he still sleeps on a board, wears a light corset. Last week, at Kennedy's request, his two Manhattan physicians reported: "Your health is excellent...
...people threw off Puritanism like a corset, and expressed their relief in "dancing, singing, eating, drinking, swearing, gambling, blaspheming, whoring, cockfighting, dogfighting, bearbaiting, bull-baiting, horse-baiting bonfire-burning, gunpowder-exploding." At Charles's coronation, his health was drunk so often that the streets were full of vomiting citizens, and Diarist Samuel Pepys wrote that he was never so "foxed" in his life...
...garment trade hopes to concentrate on fewer styles, and counts on mass production to hold prices down. There will be more of the basic models-nubby coats, colorful wool knits and fur-trimmed garments. Dresses are being made with jackets for double duty, the jacket removable for evening. Corset and other foundation-garment makers have cut the number of styles by a third, yet have managed to bring out a new assortment suitable even for bikini wearers. In June bridal gowns, the train that so often required the help of small brothers has been replaced by a nononsense, efficiency ballerina...
Squeeze Play. In Stockton, Calif., the Industrial Accident Commission awarded Women's Wear Clerk Betty Owens $1,000 for a back injury suffered while squeezing a 250-lb. customer into a corset...