Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having toured the U.S. women's club lecture loop, British-born Ginette Spanier, directrice of Paris' Balmain fashion house, had a few words about American women yearning to be chic. "American women are so frightened about doing the wrong thing," she said, "and sometimes you can't blame them. There are so many fashion writers in America now that the poor dears are absolutely battered by waves of instructions. That's why when I speak to them, they seem to feel they're getting the God's honest truth. And they ask the most...
Some of the chic clique are turning to other furs, running the range from badger to beaver, squirrel to seal, and including such far-out furs as pony, jaguar and zebra; best-dressed Mrs. William Paley passed up racks of floor-length mink coats last week to buy a simple little number in grey squirrel. Currently, the move is to sable. But if it is to be mink, then it must be cut rakishly enough or designed with sufficient casualness to insure its owner protection against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries...
Social Tips. Like Sister Jackie, shy, chic Lee Radziwill devotes as much time as she can to her children. In her first and last ceremonial public appearance-to open Chelsea's annual antiques fair-she was so jittery that she bumped heads with the curtsying moppet who presented her a bouquet of flowers, returned to her seat and sat on the bouquet. Like Jackie Kennedy, too. she has had a fling at journalism, notably last July, when she was barred from a private, nonpress showing by Couturier Hubert de Givenchy after it was learned that she was covering...
...Guard still finds the Register useful as a place to find people's summer phone numbers and to look up who married Mildred's boy, but it has been too diluted with "just anybody" for it to "mean anything" any more. And as far as the chic international crowd is concerned, too few of them are listed for them to think about it one way or another...
...families, for all their stuffiness, produced standards and had the authority to enforce them. It will be the responsibility of America's New Guard, busily working up on charities and civic enterprises and into the Social Register, to nurture an elite of service to counterbalance the merely rich, chic and amusing internationals whom Vogue calls "the Beautiful People," and Women's Wear Daily calls "the Arrogants and Elegants...