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new look
[look n. 2 f.]
1. (Freq. with capital initials.) A style of women's clothes introduced in Paris by Christian Dior in 1947, characterized esp. by skirts longer and fuller than those previously worn. Also applied to more recent new styles.
1947Time 15 Sept. 87 What was going on [in fashion]? The search for the ‘New Look’. What was the New Look? No one knew precisely. 1948Economist 14 Feb. 285/2 Clothing in styles which the New Look has superseded. 1949Ann. Reg. 1948 59 The ‘new look’ had swept the great cities. 1957Daily Mail 25 Oct. 10/2 When Christian Dior launched the New Look in 1947 it met with an enthusiasm which amounted to hysteria. 1958Spectator 8 Aug. 187/1 The [fashion] trade now bitterly resents St. Laurent's new look.
2. In wider use: a change in policy or procedure; a renovated or up-to-date presentation or appearance. Also (with hyphen) attrib.
1948Melody Maker 3 Apr. 3/3 (heading) The ‘New Look’ in jazz has come to stay. 1952Economist 27 Sept. 765/2 (heading) Czech trade unions reorganized... The ‘new look’ given to, and by, the trade union officials at once brought them into conflict with the rank and file of the movement. 1952Science News Let. 25 Oct. 258/1 A ‘New Look’ for veterans with smashed noses due to war⁓time injuries is being developed. 1955Ann. Reg. 1954 169 On January 12 the Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, announced what came to be called the ‘New Look’ policy. 1956E. J. Ruppelt Report on Unidentified Flying Objects 85 In early 1949 the term ‘new look’ was well known. The new look in women's fashions was the lower hem⁓lines, in automobiles it was longer lines. In UFO circles the new look was cuss 'em. 1958J. Cannan And be a Villain iii. 61 How different life looked now, and how strange that the begetter of this New Look was..the depraved and disgraced Jonathan. 1959News Chron. 2 Nov. 5/1 The new-look colours and markings which are to be on all B.E.A. airliners. 1960Guardian 28 Apr. 6/6 The ‘new look’ which..the Glasgow business man who now runs the Tourist Board, is giving to tourist centres. 1966Melody Maker 15 Oct. 19 A slightly new-look Johnny Parker band restored to full vigour. 1974S. Gulliver Vulcan Bulletins 107 It's the new-look Libyan justice. Or rather, it's medieval but recently revived.
Hence new-ˈlookish a.
1950Christian Sci. Monitor 20 Feb. 10/1 Visitors recently returned from Moscow report that it is the most New Lookish of any Russian city. |