Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Canfield lives in and writes about Vermont, a sensible State where a lady's hat, to be up to the moment, needs only to be a decent shelter for the head. One might expect Author Canfield, therefore, to be impervious to literary fashion as well. But so many tucks, ribbons and feathers have been incorporated into the novel since she last wrote one (Bonfire, 1933), that she has felt it necessary to come up to date. The result sits on her head at a rakish angle, tapers to a giddy point. The angle: fascism is dangerous. The point...
...decision the Debating Council defeated Vassar in a debate yesterday afternoon, broadcast over Station WAAB on the subject, Resolved: That women should declare their independence from fashion...
...principal arguments of the affirmative were that women would be able to express their personalities more freely if freed from the dictates of fashion. Then clothes would be better made and last longer; whereas the time now spent in shopping would be devoted to more constructive activity. Mass production of dresses would be displaced by the couturier system as in Paris, with resulting better fitting clothes...
...negative argued that far from suffering under the yoke of the fashion setters, the women actually enjoy it, since fashion was a way for women to express their independence of the world of men and work...
...Yorkers really deserved to win Saturday night's game. They were playing a very smart brand of hockey throughout, and they capitalized on every break in heads-up fashion, Hodder's charges, on the other hand, were somewhat off form...