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...brother, no wives, headed for Texas. He was met at the airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse...
...give these Neiman-Marcus people a year−two years, if they have plenty of money, three years, if they don't care what happens to it." So, the story goes, said a passing clothes drummer in 1907 of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Neiman and Herbert Marcus, who hoped to bring Fifth Avenue fashions to the rawhide heart of the Southwest. Last week Neiman-Marcus was not only still around to celebrate a highly profitable golden anniversary (annual sales of $36 million, earnings of $543,000) as one of the world's finest specialty stores (TIME, Sept...
...mark its birthday in typical Texas-tall style, the store traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...
What was going on, as everyone else in Dallas knew, was probably the biggest birthday party ever attempted by any U.S. department store. All Dallas was swept into the act. For Neiman-Marcus' "French Fortnight," the art museum displayed 32 Toulouse-Lautrecs, and the local Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner...
...Dallas, French Fashion Designer Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 74, received the Neiman-Marcus Golden Anniversary Award as "the great innovator who emancipated the feminine silhouette," transforming it from undulating, feminine curves to flapper angularities with emphasis on comfort, jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still...