Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that end, she tucks an apron around her Dior and cooks her own meals. Felicia Sarnoff, 37, second wife of the board chairman of NBC and mother of two small children, buys her clothes at Jax, Saks and Lord & Taylor, scorns "the group that thinks it's chic to whip over to Paris, sit around in hot, stuffy rooms and have 80 fittings." She is pleased with the trend to more and more formal dinners, which she prefers to "those mad mob scenes at cocktail parties," but is none too happy about the resultant need for a closetful...
...best-dressed man in the class of 1911. He was so handsome and rich that F. Scott Fitzgerald patterned Dick Diver, the golden-boy hero of Tender Is the Night, after him. For 22 years, until his retirement in 1956, Murphy was president of Fifth Avenue's chic Mark Cross leather-goods store, which his father began. Until his death last week at 76, he never bought any modern art or hung anything more than one Leger in his house. But during one short period of his life, Gerald Murphy did ten paintings that by their precisionist style...
Plumes & Horns. The little buzzers are In; Vogue has started photographing Beautiful People sporting the latest screech in two-wheeled chic. But there is one jarring note: the unesthetic crash helmet, with its implications of imminent catastrophe. Perhaps plumes would help-or, for the aggressive male on the higher-powered model, Viking horns...
Though obviously silly, an August vacation was still chic. At St. Tropez alone, Premier Georges Pompidou, Conductor Herbert von Karajan, Artist Bernard Buffet and Author Franchise Sagan were dining and dancing. Brigitte Bardot arrived, then left when she could not find a maid. There were so many of the young, beautiful people from Paris that the town was being called St. Tropez-des-Près. In Antibes, Pablo Picasso good-humoredly cavorted for tourist cameras at the Restaurant Roger...
They were. Today, at the beginning of sports shoes' hot season, sandals are hottest of all, far more popular than ever before. In any of a hundred shapes, whether exquisite and chic or plain and substantial, wrought with precision by careful hand or knocked out en masse by machine, littered with "jewels" at a cost in the neighborhood of $150 or woven of raffia for $2.99, sandals are increasingly the newest, the nicest and the niftiest way to step out in style. The squares? Swinging. The beats? Beaten...