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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 fashio ... [...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. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, 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. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
