Word: velveteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Bloomingdale's puffed such items as quilted skirts, velveteen trousers (for "after skiing"), and powder-blue parkas embroidered with Alpine flowers described as "too pretty to be tucked in." At Saks Fifth Avenue, Sophie Gimbel paraded a ground-length after-skiing ensemble with stole (price...
...Washington studio, the décor is pinball-palace modern, badly beat up. The carpet is worn through, the stained orange velveteen seats are mostly out of whack. Cigaret butts smaller than a little fingernail mat the floor, and through the thick smoke appear big wall signs: "No Smoking." No self-respecting Frenchman would let such a challenge pass, and almost everybody (except babes in arms, of whom there were several) puffs away industriously...
...never intended to be a dean; he wanted to be a poet. As a student at the University of Michigan, Christian Gauss (rhymes with mouse) was a prominent athlete and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, dressed in velveteen jacket and flowing tie á la Gilbert's Bunthorne. He worked his way through college in three years, could recite the Inferno from start to finish in Italian by the time he graduated. He sailed off to Paris, to the Latin Quarter and versifying. Michigan lured him back with the offer of a teaching job, made more attractive by the fact that...
...locks to a hairdresser (curls in front, ringlets in back), traffic-jammed the streets outside the hotel and outside the barnlike Maple Leaf Gardens where the Quintuplets bravely put on a special act for the Victory Loan drive. The act was an old-fashioned Hippodrome sock-eroo. In red velveteen dresses, white shoes and socks, the girls rode onstage astride five white tricycles, dismounted, gathered at a mike, sang The Little House...
...makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...