Word: poiret
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Paul Poiret, always theatrical, startled fashion scouts with high Elizabethan ruffs on formal afternoon dresses, with lame skirts over lace trousers, an evening sensation...
Reports that the U. S. Treasury paid 1,250,000 francs ($50,000) to a "Paris clerk" for information he got by "violating the premises" of famed Dressmaker Paul Poiret stirred Paris editors last week to apoplectic fury. Mad as two stitches, Dressmaker Poiret showed reporters a letter he had just received from Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, on whom U. S. Customs men imposed the record penalty of all time $213,286 (TIME, May 12). Mrs. Dodge complained, said M. Poiret, that the Customs officials showed her photostatic copies of pages from the Poiret ledger, thus forcing her to agree...