Word: bouffante
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...once bouffant hair pulled back in stylish severity beneath a 15-yard tulle veil, the bride swept down the stair case into the East Room of the White House. She moved in metronomic precision on the arm of her father, the 36th President of the United States, beneath the stern, portraited gaze of four predecessors (none a Democrat). The 32-man chamber orchestra...
Hats and hairdos are enemies. When the bouffant coiffures came in, hats went out. Even for church, they gave way to mantillas or a piece of veil or velvet bow. Until recently, college girls were packed off to school without a single hat to their name...
...that shorter, more natural hair styles are replacing the bouffant, hats are on the way back in. "Hats are a great way to camouflage yourself," says new Model Penelope Tree, who wears an assortment of big-brimmed Garbos around the Sarah Lawrence campus. Like such other Garbo fanciers as Julie Christie, Penelope firmly believes: "The floppier the better...
Perched on the hood of a police car and surrounded by ten club-swinging bodyguards, the bouffant-haired Black Power fanatic harangued a crowd of more than 1,000 with his customary oxymoronic oratory, advising his listeners that the U.S. has 13 concentration camps where it plans to put Negroes and that "America gave us a black astronaut just so's they could lose that nigger in space." Then came the familiar peroration: "Stop singing and start swinging, chump. Get a gun." As the crowd broke up, a Negro girl skipped down the street happily chanting...
Tricked out in such garish plumage as bouffant vermilion coiffures, patterned stockings and silver demi-mini-dresses, the new whore corps is aggressive, ubiquitous and expensive (around $1 per minute). In the past five years, three huge new hotels, catering mostly to out-of-town conventioneers, have deluged the midtown area with lonely, well-to-do customers. Obeying the laws of supply and demand, girls from Harlem, Queens and states halfway across the country have flocked in to mulct the ever-growing clientele. Many of them are blonde-wigged Negroes sporting the furled umbrellas that seem to be badges...