Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Prag works in a glass office on the 36th floor of a modern office building in the cast forties in New York City. In her thirties, chic in white slacks and a brown sweater, she offered me coffee and in a slow but alert voice told me the kind of image she had attempted to present of the kind of girl who uses Pristeen...
...suntan instead of slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...
First to lure les enfants was Couturier Pierre Cardin, who presented a complete line of super-chic children's clothes two years ago. Cardin's collection was as high-priced as it was high fashion. A miniature version of the famous "cos-mocorps" jump suit cost $70, a boy's tweed suit $80. Orders did not exactly flood in. Taking second thought, Cardin began working closely with his manufacturers, finally succeeded in cutting his prices almost in half. By way of celebration, he opened a special children's boutique this month, directly across Paris' elegant...
Neiman-Marcus is already touting it as the "chic Christmas gift of 1969." The day it went on sale at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, lines formed as if something were being given away. Not quite. The bulky box labeled Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participation No. 1 costs $500. For that, the customer receives 390 colored, magnetized plastic pieces to be arranged at will within a 20-in. by 20-in. frame -plus the added attraction of hanging a work of art he can claim, truthfully enough, to have put together himself...
...friends describe Esther, 26, as sophisticated, reasonably chic and tough-minded. "In contrast to some of the other girls in the office," recalls one of Robert Kennedy's former aides, "she gave the impression of having something else in her life besides working for Robert Kennedy. For some of the younger girls, that was all there was." Esther's mother is a former Democratic National Committeewoman from Connecticut. Esther worked for the Senate subcommittee on government reorganization before she joined R.F.K.'s staff in 1968. She now assists the vice president of the Urban Institute in Washington...