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Carol Spencer
Carol Spencer is an American fashion designer. Most of her career from the early 1960s until 1999 was devoted to creating fashion for Barbie. Early life and education Spencer was born in 1932; until she was three, when her father died, the family lived in Texas. She was raised in Minneapolis; whie she was still in school, her mother also died. As a child she made outfits for paper dolls and then, learning from her grandmother, clothing for herself. She attended Washburn High School, graduating in 1950. In 1955 she graduated with a bachelor of fine arts, concentrating on fashion design, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Early career After graduating from college she went to work in New York City for ''Mademoiselle''. She moved back to Minneapolis to design for Wonderalls, a children's clothing manufacturer. She moved to Milwaukee to work designing sportswear. Barbie career In 1963 she responded to a blind classified advertisement for a "cost-conscious fash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
