Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country fair for children of Government leaders on the White House lawn last week, Lynda showed up, with Chuck, in a mod cow-wrangler rig of mini-culottes-revealing an eye-popping expanse of leg-and a five-gallon hat that showed how far Hamilton's chic influence on her wardrobe had faded...
...whisked by helicopter to Janis mere moments before the performance. Pausing only to snip off some excess sleeve, Janis donned the coat and played his concert to pandemonious applause. And why a paper dinner jacket in the first place? Well, in the first place it's pretty chic; and-uh-Janis works up quite a sweat...
Banished Offenders. Because of its growing influence, Women's Wear has had a noticeable effect on the fashion business. Manufacturers are quick to adopt such Fairchild slogans as "Real-girl" and "Sportive," "Young Arrogant" and "Cool Chic." "When they started bringing out 'sportive girdles,' I couldn't believe it," says Fairchild. But the Women's Wear role of self-appointed arbiter of fashion is often resented. "I dispute their right to judge fashion before it happens," says Designer Pauline Trigere, "and they do it all the time...
Jaruse Vydrova, a chic blonde from Prague, proudly reported last week that, acting on "research into selling methods abroad and market research at home," the Czech refrigerator industry introduced free installations and delivery service. And when the domestic TV industry recently faced a serious production surplus, it took some advice from the marketing researcher and started TV rentals, with great success...
Humor was, after all, her basic form of dress and address. And humor passes through the most ephemeral of fashions. The concept of wit, the very word, today suggests a dated elegance. Gone is the vintage innocence, masquerading as chic, that Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind...