Economics of FashionRonald Press Company, 1928 - 521 pagina's |
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advertising American apparel industry artistic Beau Brummell Beau Nash beauty became began Brummell bust buyers buying coat collar color Condé Nast Publications consumer COSTUMES OF LADIES couture custom decline decoration demand desire dominating dress dressmaking effect eighteenth century Empire period Empire style established fabrics factors fash fashion cycle fashion movements fashion trend field followed France French French Revolution furniture groups hats hips hobble skirt house of Worth houses human hunger ILLUSTRATION OF FASHION important individual influence interest interior Jeanne Lanvin jobber lacing lines Louis Louis XVI manufacturers Marie Antoinette measurements men's clothing ment merchandise millinery modern Paris Paris dressmakers Paul Poiret person PLATE possible practical probably production Queen ready-to-wear rule season shoes silk skirts Sleeve Length social standard sizes stout style tailors taste tendency tion trousers types of garments underwear vogue waist wear width women women's apparel worn York
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Pagina 3 - Style is a characteristic or distinctive mode or method of expression, presentation or conception in the field of some art.
Pagina 9 - The influence of fashion over the human mind is such as to make a style, when accepted, seem beautiful, no matter how hideous it may appear at other times when not in fashion. It is hard to believe that the hoop skirt, the bustle and the leg o'mutton sleeve were once considered very charming and highly appropriate. No doubt the present fashions will in time seem just as ridiculous and even, possibly, as hideous as do these past styles seem to us now.
Pagina 4 - Fashion is nothing more than the prevailing style at any time. Styles constantly change, some rapidly, some slowly. Whenever a style is followed or accepted it is the fashion. Thus every important style has at one time or another been the fashion. It may even have had fashion revivals, but a style is still a style even if it is not a fashion.
Pagina 252 - The first expressions of co-operation were found in the co-operative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
Pagina iii - BVD's in winter and low shoes all the year round. It makes women wear less clothing than ever before in modern times. It changes the tint of the face powder, the odor of the perfume, the wave of the hair, the position of the waist line, the length of the skirt, the color of the hose, the height of the heels.
Pagina 25 - A democratic system of education ... is one of the surest ways of creating and greatly extending markets for goods of all kinds and especially those goods in which fashion may play a part. — Ex-adman James Rorty, Our Master's Voice, 1934 Although the brands seem to be everywhere - at kids...
Pagina 39 - ... line of the dress has been disregarded. It would have been much more significant stylistically and probably shown more decided variations; but there are periods when it vanishes. When the waist line is visible and below the minimum diameter of the waist, the distance between the two was also noted. 4. Depth or length of decolletage, measured from the mouth to the middle of the corsage edge in front. 5. Diameter of the skirt at its hem or base. 6. Maximum diameter of the skirt at any point above...
Pagina 260 - a typical outfit for women consisted of long drawers trimmed with lace, a flannel petticoat, another under-petticoat, then a wadded petticoat, wadded from the waist to the knee with frequent additions of whalebone and horsehair cloth to secure extra stiffness and extension. This garment was followed by still another white starched petticoat, and then two muslin petticoats and finally the outer dress.
Pagina 17 - ... movements, we will make our merchandising plans work with them instead of, as at present in a large number of cases, independently of them, and too often actually against them. Merchandising success seems to be the result of working with trends The business concern working with the trend of fashion makes progress easily. The business concern working against fashion has a hard time of it. The problem from the standpoint of industry is how to shift productive ability from lines of waning fashion...
Pagina 78 - Without any detailed experimentation, teachers have long known that improvement in learning is extremely irregular, varying not only from individual to individual but also in the same individual from time to time.