ATDTDA (1): Chevrolette McAdoo

[Tim Strzechowski]

"The young woman directed a graceful kick which was not, however altogether lacking in affection [...]" (p. 26).

CHEVROLET In the early 1900s, 2 race car drivers, Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant, met on a racetrack in Michigan. French driver Chevrolet was also a car designer and American driver Durant was an executive of the Buick car plant in Flint, Mich. The cars designed by Chevrolet were large and costly, but Durant modified them into smaller, less expensive models. He kept the name, "Chevrolet," because it "had a musical sound and the romance of foreign origin." The rectangle-superimposed-upon-a-parallelogram trademark designed for Chevrolet cars was discovered by Durant while he traveled in France. He was attracted by the pattern which appeared in the wallpaper of a hotel room and ripped off a sample to take back to the U.S. 
http://www.trivia-library.com/a/history-of-product-names-and-trademarks-chevrolet.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Chevrolet

McAdoo, TX
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasTowns/McAdoo-Texas.htm

"leg-of-mutton sleeve"

A sleeve that is cut with a very full top that is gathered or pleated into the armhole, then tapers gradually to fit closely at the wrist. This style tends to be popular when revivals of the styles of the 1890s are fashionable. It is also sometimes called by the French name for a leg of lamb, a gigot sleeve.

http://www.wwd.com/dictionary/fashion#legofmuttonsleeve

http://www.fashion-era.com/mid-late_victorian_fashion.htm

http://www.styledash.com/2006/08/01/fashion-101-the-leg-of-mutton-sleeve/


"ostrich-feather boa"

http://rdaltondistrib.stores.yahoo.net/osfeboa3p.html


"her hat, roguishly atilt, egret plumes swooping each time she moved her head, would have charmed even the most zealous of conservationist bird-lovers"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egret

http://www.assateague.com/sn-egret.html

http://magazine.audubon.org/features0412/hats.html

  
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