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Ladies of Leisure is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ralph Graves.The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the 1924 play Ladies of the Evening by Milton Herbert Gropper, which ran for 159 performances on Broadway.
The culturally preferred silhouette among Western women during the 1930s was a pointy bust, which further increased demand for a forming garment. The word "brassiere" was gradually shortened to "bra" in the 1930s. According to a 1934 survey by Harper's Bazaar, "bra" was the most commonly used expression for the garment among college women. In ...
The Bridal Party is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and featured in the Saturday Evening Post on August 9, 1930. The story is based on Ludlow Fowler's brother, Powell Fowler, May 1930 Paris wedding. It is Fitzgerald's first story dealing with the stock market crash and celebrates the end of the period when wealthy Americans ...
Underwire bras, the most popular cleavage-boosting lingerie, accounted for 60% of the UK bra market in 2000. [ 206 ] and 70% in 2005. [ 207 ] About 70% of women who wear bras wear a steel underwire bra according to underwear manufacturer S&S Industries of New York in 2009. [ 208 ]
Japanese bride wearing a strapless dress, 2010. In 2012, the strapless dress was described as the most widely requested style for Western wedding dresses. [20] Vera Wang is sometimes credited with introducing this style of bridal dress in the first decade of the 21st century, [20] although strapless dresses were an increasingly valid option from the 1990s onwards with the growing popularity of ...
1930s sex comedy films (2 P) This page was last edited on 26 August 2023, at 12:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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A womanless wedding taking place at a Methodist church in Cincinnati, Ohio in the early 20th century. A womanless wedding is a traditional community "ritual of inversion" performance, popular in the United States in the early 20th century.