Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mills College's chic, petite Renata Klara Wlodarczyk (pronounced Vwo-dar-chick), 22, is a Polish-born English major who leaves the West Coast's top women's campus with a Phi Beta Kappa key, a 3.9 average (out of a possible 4.0) and a two-year Marshall Scholarship to Oxford's Lady Margaret Hall College. While her architect father was flying for the R.A.F. in World War II, Renata's mother enlisted in the Polish underground. In 1946 her mother bribed Russian guards and waded with her across a river into Czechoslovakia. Reunited...
...were paying excess-baggage fees for wrinkleable clothes of regular stay-at-home weight, which had to be pressed again and again, or going lightweight and drip-dry, in the universally recognizable tourist costumes of Orion, nylon or Dacron, which, if well enough styled at times, were never really chic. But in this season's suitcases, wadded and crumpled like hasty lumps of dough, are vacation wardrobes of considerable elegance and style. The seemingly unsalvageable lumps emerge as slight, figure-skimming dresses made of featherweight knits and various jerseys, including wrinkleproof synthetic jerseys with synthetic names (Ban-Lon, Arnel...
...bulkier, more elaborate dresses severely inhibit a woman getting in or out of cramped taxis and automobiles. But technology is not the whole story. As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look of unostentatious but expensive elegance that goes beyond mere chic. Most little nothings today are essentially grown-up versions of sleeveless, high-necklined junior dresses, unfitted, but figure-suggesting. 'It's almost like walking around in a slip," says a Henri Bendel buyer. "As soon as a dress gets busy, it moves out of the little-nothing class...
...chic in the Greek...
...nosebag, looking from the neck up like none other than W. C. Fields; a 500-lb. Galápagos tortoise, that roughly resembles an old grey washtub upside down, changes abruptly, as a bright red bird lights on its back, to something curiously like a vast but remarkably chic Paris...