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... occult -Vy yryy powers, used as substitutes for human sacrifices gg XX in bloody rites. More recently they served as yyyr fashion mannequins. She traces their fascinating XX history in an elegant, richly illustrated book, XX gg English Dolls, Effigies ...
... the humorous and comic, such as the Naked Boy which satirized the caprice of i fashion: So fickle is our English nation, I iMl wou'd be clothed if I knew the fashion. A full index serves this standard work of reference which is also a work of art ...
... the Restora- s tion, eighteenth century and Regency, when they 1) became leading social haunts, mirrors of manners and S fashion. Nothing could be more diverting than the J stories of the gallants and ladies who took the waters S and sundry other cures ...
... from them. During the war, Oliver attempts to win back Tony now devastatingly attractive in a world-weary, 1 -trust-no-one fashion. Their meeting fails, and Tony's original impression of his father's weakness is confirmed. Meanwhile Lucy, now spelling love ...
... English Woman's Domestic Magazine, which came out about a hundred years ago and which is full of the most delightful colour fashion-plates, each picture tinted by hand in each separate copy. In those days rows of little girls sat in the out side offices ...
... Child In Fashion (Batsford, 2Ss.), pointing out that until fairly late in the eighteenth century children were dressed like miniature adults, every discomfort of fashion being repro duced on a small scale for the nursery. As in The Woman In Fashion, she ...
... Moore's The Woman in Fashion (Batsford, 25s.) is a history of styles from c.1800 to 1927, with photo graphs by Felix Fonteyn of stage, screen and other celebrities wearing dresses from her unique collection. On the psychology of fashion, she disputes that ...
... control their rulers. Comrades, please note. Continued on page 66) TWENTIETH-CENTURY FASHION Dr. c. willett cunnington is always illuminating on dress because he relates fashion changes to social background. After the glam- orous prudery and luxurious ele ...
... like one big, loving family. Fanny, brilliant comedienne, could play Shakes peare, drama, farce, musicals. The lovable, old-fashioned Mary, who smiled at age, we all cherish in memory. And now there's Jean Webster-Brough to enshrine these and others in a ...
... conquered the world. 1 WOULDN'T go as far as saying that the world of fashion journalism is a circus, but Anne Scott- James must often have thought it so. For six years she edited a fashion magazine, and In The Mink (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) is the inside ...
... J FLORENCE DESMOND was Florrie Dawson, daughter of an Islington boot maker. As a panto-kid on tour she was such an old-fashioned little thing that they nicknamed her Granny. When the boy playing Dame left she took over the part, and gave so good an ...
... 1946-48, and The Man Who Could Grow Hair (Wingate, 10s. 6d.) records the hum orous side of his assign ments in New Yorker fashion, with Roger Duvoisin's amusing drawings. It took some courage to say Press to Paris madams who thought he was a custo mer ...