Sweater girl on her way to work. Sweater girl The term "sweater girl" was made popular in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight, form-fitting sweaters that emphasized the woman's bustline. The sweater girl trend was not confined to Hollywood and was viewed with alarm by some. In 1949 a Pittsburgh police superintendent even singled out the sweater girl as a symptom of the moral decline of postwar youth: New, soft fabrics like cashmere and angora were being used to make sweaters. The conical shape
The Girl in the Green Sweater Agnieszka Holland, did not know that there were any survivors. The Girl in the Green Sweater The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow, written by coauthors Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2008. To avoid Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust in Ukraine, Krystyna Chiger and her family hide in the sewers of Lvov. To keep warm, Chiger's grandmother knits her a green sweater, which is now in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The Girl in the Green Sweater" is a memoir co-written by Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner