Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole hog with the full names of Rudi Gernreich ($12), Donald Brooks ($22), or Geoffrey Beene ($28), or compromise-as Chester Weinberg did-with a silk strip spelling the first and more esthetic half of his name ($25). At the extremities, there are sailor berets with Adolfo's name on the band ($65), Cardin's C-studded pumps ($38), and a chain of dangling KJLs (for. Kenneth Jay Lane, $15) for a necklace. With a wave of her V-notched gloves, the lady is ready to meet her husband for lunch...
Gernreich observes: "It is the designers of accessories who are now ascendant." One case in point is Adolfo, 35. Long exclusively a high-fashion milliner, he has lately added a line of interchangeable boutique clothes, which he sells to the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mrs. William Paley. They take his "bits and pieces"-harem pants, long midi coats, shirts, vests and skirts-and combine them into what Adolfo calls "the anti-Establishment way of dressing for the Establishment...
...purge. The move rid General Onganía of a significant liberal military opposition and gave him near-absolute power for the first time in his 26 months in office. The officers he sacked were Lieut. General Julio Alsogaray, Admiral Benigno Varela, commander of naval operations, and Brigadier General Adolfo Alvarez, air force commander in chief...
...that hats are the thing to bring their neglected faces back into focus. "Besides," says Jet Setter Louise Savitt, "no man likes to dance with a woman with cold ears." There is not the slightest danger of cold ears in this year's status-fur hats, be they Adolfo's sables, Mr. John's chinchillas or Halston's minks. "The new styles are great," says Best-Dressed Betsy Theodoracopulos, "and wearing them cuts down on visits to the hairdresser." Since the furs begin at $175 and go all the way up to $900, every little economy...
...sallies forth as a singing bullfighter impaled on the horns of a dilemma. A fop as a matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...