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Fantasy Look. The mannequins were laden with vast, tiered skirts of taffeta, mousseline, velvet, satin and faille in coruscating combinations of colors. They were turbaned, feathered, booted, shawled, cinched, tasseled and encrusted from head to foot in braid, beads, rickrack and passementerie. The so-called Fantasy Look, which seemed more suitable for grand opera than for real life, was a melange of styles derived from the Russian, Gypsy, Cossack, Moroccan, Indian and Victorian...
...Africa, tribal priestesses once braided their hair as a symbol of their religious powers, and warriors plaited prior to battle. Modern-day American braiders have different motives. "It means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance...
...AFRO-BRAID, a short Afro combined with a layer of small braids in the front...
...13th century, Arab weavers are said to have discovered that instead of snipping unneeded lengths of twine from finished products, they could braid it into an attractive, decorative fringe with a series of simple knots. Slowly the technique spread north to Europe. In 1689 when William of Orange became King of England, his wife, Queen Mary, introduced the fascinating art of macramé (from the Arab rnigrarmah, meaning ornamental braid or fringe) to palace circles. The Incas and American Indians had their own versions. Sometimes widely popular, sometimes kept alive only by seamen to whom knotting was both work...
...Thayer, a veteran writer and Jackie's longtime friend, is filled with verbatim memorandums that document Jacqueline's passionate perfectionism and attention to detail. She constantly bombarded the White House chief usher, J. Bernard West, with memos about minutiae. ("Also in the Blue Room make sure the braid on curtains is turned in as if braid faces out it gets sunburned . . . We need cigarette boxes -something to replace ones with flying fish and dollar bills on them.") Jacqueline designed a dream house in Virginia, but President Kennedy did not like it much and spent only four weekends there...