Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like cowboys-and-Indians, or maybe whoop-it-up day at the rodeo. But there in U.S.-style blue jeans was Princess Anne, 12, all set to watch Daddy play in a polo tournament at Windsor. By contrast, Queen Elizabeth, 37, scorning matched mother-and-daughter garb, looked uncommonly chic, as crisply turned out as any young matron of the Virginia horsy set. Both appeared less concerned with fashion than with Prince Philip's chances. No problem, though. His team won a smashing victory...
...name is no more familiar. But Diana (pronounced Deeann) Vreeland is better known than her anonymity tells; as the new editor in chief of Vogue Magazine, she is the professional bellwether to a certain special clique of chic. She has long been a flamboyant and energetic tastemaker; designers have been known to tremble at her nod, customers at private showings to pick purely what she picks, manufacturers and merchandisers to watch her every move with rapt fixation. She is, in fact, probably the single most fabled, venerated and respected backstage fashion force in the world today...
...most of her dresses made ("I am NOT a shopper"). "Some little woman runs them up for her," says the very chic Mrs. William Paley, "and of course you wouldn't dream of asking her where the material came from." She has worn the same shoes for 30 years (specially designed T-strap sandals with round closed toes and square low heels), never wears any more of a hat than a snood. She rouges her ears, has a manicure, pedicure, massage and hairdo daily, drinks Mountain Valley Mineral Water with the gusto of an addict. When she stays...
...wife Ethel is expecting her eighth in July, and Teddy's wife Joan her third in August. With the new White House arrival, that will make a total of 23 grandchildren for Joe and Rose. Since the Kennedy ladies are stylesetters, it may also be quite chic to be pregnant this summer. Joan and Ethel have bought a couple of closetfuls of creations by Manhattan Designer Nancy Herzlinger, a lithe, attractive mother of four. Her Nan Dee maternity clothes are made with four side seams; each releases at the pull of a thread to add inches when they...
Withering Comment. Prisunic got started back in 1931 as a frank copy of Woolworth's, became popular with working-class families but not with chic Parisians, whose most withering comment on a shoddy garment was, "That must come from Prisunic." The chain lifted its sights after World War II and spied a better market. As the American self-service idea began to catch on in Europe, Prisunic opened its own large supermarchès. Today it operates 270 stores in France and 34 in former French possessions, employs 15,000 people, and last year surged above $500 million...