Word: buttonhooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass...
...Fashioned Buttonhook. But the visiting salesmen and neighbors were some compensation. There was the local abortionist who came up when news of Author MacDonald's being " 'that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three...