What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World is the seventh studio album from The Decemberists, released on January 20, 2015. The album's title comes from a line in the song "12/17/12", a reference to the date of Barack Obama's speech in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and lead singer Colin Meloy's conflicting feelings about the shooting and his happy personal life. "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World" received mostly positive reviews. It currently has a metascore of 77 and user score of 8.1 from Metacritic. "The
1900s in Western fashion veil for driving and sailor hats worn for tennis matches, bicycling and croquet. This decade marked the full flowering of Parisian "haute couture" as the arbiter of styles and silhouettes for women of all classes. Designers sent fashion models or "mannequins" to the Longchamp races wearing the latest styles, and fashion photographs identified the creators of individual gowns. In 1908, a new silhouette emerged from Callot Soeurs, Vionnet at the house of Doucet, and most importantly, Paul Poiret. The styles were variously called "Merveilleuse", "Directoire", and "Empire" after the fashions of the turn of the nineteenth century, which they resembled