Word: silk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, has never been one particular place. Rather, Peterman retails an evoked time, a diffuse, multifaceted past located somewhere between the two World Wars, sometimes drifting back into the Edwardian. A thought along these lines appears in the text presenting an Indian Elephant Caftan (No. AAF7744. Silk crepe de Chine. $180. Bangalore, India): "Comeliness and the passions of the past happen to mean a lot to me, perhaps...
These explosive growth rates cause companies to confront the recurring Velcro Valley conundrum: What starts out as a couple of bros silk-screening T shirts and writing invoices on brown paper bags can quickly grow into a multimillion-dollar business. When that happens, it gets a little harder to take the afternoon off to go surfing. "If you want to grow," says Danny Kwok of Quiksilver, "you gotta give away a little bit of your life-style...
...father, he says, sexually ravaged him and his twin sister, a recent suicide, when they were kids. This acerbic farce-melodrama, laureled at Cannes and by critics' groups, is directed in a fake-verite style that distracts a bit from the entertaining spectacle of the rich airing their bloody silk underwear in public. But it's still creepy fun to watch the upper class pretend a family isn't in tatters. When propriety meets outrage in a chateau, guess which one wins? Cognac, anyone...
Luciano also led the trend in gangster chic. He lived large, in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Expensive and elegant suits, silk shirts, handmade shoes, cashmere topcoats and fedoras enhanced his executive image. There was always a beautiful woman, a showgirl or a nightclub singer on his arm. Sinatra and actor George Raft were pals...
NYLON STOCKINGS Nylon was created in 1938 DuPont found the killer app in 1940 when the first nylon stockings went on sale. Women gladly paid $1.15 a pair, twice the price of silk stockings...