Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle to Paris Dress-Designer Elsa Schiaparelli...
...Children should be allowed to dress and wash themselves, even though they cannot do it well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help the child, but help him in such a way that he may act for himself...
...Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
...crowns him with an iron mask. According to the picture, d'Artagnan's musketeers soon had him out again, gave Louis the mask and Philippe his name, girl and crown. The picture shows Philippe as something of a New Dealer, eager to abolish the salt tax and dress up the peasantry. But judging from the history of Louis XIV's reactionary reign (1643-1715), France never felt the difference, must have switched bottles without changing its Bourbon...
...Repton, a famed public school in Britain's Derbyshire. Repton's boys (200 of whom played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement: his 382-year-old school's uniform is to be junked. Repton's boys, said he, are to be soundly and sensibly reclothed...