Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chanel & Shower Curtains. Chicago society has been dressing up for years, but New and Old Guard alike have welcomed the new sanction with delight. Mrs. Edward Byron Smith, whose family is among Chicago's oldest, still shops in small, exclusive local stores, is so socially secure that she found it "quite amusing" to encounter another woman wearing the identical gown at a recent ball. Mrs. Michael Butler, 31, third wife to her second husband, a millionaire sportsman (Manhattan's Robin Butler was his second) keeps busy with two daughters (by No. 1) and a ten-month...
...recognized"). She makes frequent trips to town, adores an evening at the opera or dinner at a favorite restaurant like Maxim's ("We love it," she says, "although the one in Paris is really a bit better"). A crack shot, capable equestrienne and "dear friend of Coco Chanel's," Mrs. Butler has a passion for Paris clothes, wears long hostess gowns or pants suits for quiet evenings at home. In fact, evening pants, designed and priced high by Pucci, Chanel and imitators, are almost intimidatingly chic in salons from San Francisco to New York, where no one sets...
...special stratum in between, a sort of nouveau niche. Mr. Goff is a lawyer, Mrs. Goff his first wife. Instead of an old-style town house or suburban estate, they have a wood-paneled-duplex city apartment. Like Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Goff, 33, is partial to Chanel, makes do at local shops and "the boutiques in New York, when it works out" between annual trips to Europe...
...credit is mostly Chanel's. The closed-toe, sling-back shoe shown with her Paris collection several seasons ago swept the Continental set off their cramped feet; slow to cross the sea, the shoe was introduced to the U.S. only last fall by Designer Herbert Levine, was instantly copied in every color in real and ersatz fabrics from Monterey to Montauk Point. Strictly speaking not a sandal except to the industry, the Chanel model spurred what Stylist David Evins calls "the less-shoe look," was such a staggering success on the market that even barer versions seemed worth...
...Like a Chanel Gown. Editor Lazareff runs her magazine with the graceful enthusiasm of a woman who wears command like a Chanel gown. Visitors to Elle's offices-among them delegations regularly sent over by the French Foreign Ministry's section on cultural affairs-frequently remark that all the girls seem to be in uniform. And in a way they are. If Madame shows up one morning in a navy suit, next day navy suits will bloom all over the staff...