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Timeline: Modern Fashion, 1930-1958

Part II: 1930-1968 by David Johnson 1930 1940-1945 1947 1950 1954 1960s 1968 Next: 1970-1990 1930 Hemlines drop; then gradually rise Alix "Madame" Grès becomes famous for elegant…

Brewer's: Cap

Black cap (See page 140, Black Cap.) Cater cap. A square cap or mortar-board. (French, quartier.) College cap. A trencher like the caps worn at the English Universities by students and…

Revelation: 19

Revelation Chapter 19 1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2 For true…

2 Kings: 22

2 Kings Chapter 22 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah…

Sean Combs, 2001 News

(Puff Daddy), entertainment mogul, was acquitted in a Manhattan court in March of four counts of illegal possession of a gun and one count of bribery. The charges stemmed from a December 1999…

Mary Quant Biography

Mary Quantfashion designerBorn: 1934 Quant turned the fashion world upside-down with her outrageous styles. She is credited with creating both the mod look of the 1960s, with its futuristic-…

Michael Kors Biography

Born: 1959Birthplace: Long Island, New YorkBest Known as: Top Fashion Designer Michael Kors got his start in fashion by designing and merchandising a…

Ebenezer Butterick Biography

Ebenezer Butterickinventor, fashion business executiveBorn: 5/29/1826Birthplace: Sterling, Mass. He and his wife, Ellen Augusta Pollard Butterick (d. 1871) developed paper clothing patterns…

Mary Henrietta Kingsley Biography

Mary Henrietta KingsleyexplorerBorn: 1862Birthplace: London, England Mary Kingsley led a quiet life until after the deaths of her parents. She then took off for Africa to study African…