Word: chiffoned
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...heralds of chic, "and onward to something older!" For many designers and their customers, the In echo is of the '20 -not so much the roaring of the jazz babies in speakeasies as the tinkling of cocktail glasses on Long Island lawns and the rustle of silk against chiffon...
...seek her help in detecting illness; several reputable doctors in the area bring patients to her for diagnostic clues. Her information, in true spiritualist tradition, comes from "spirit guides," friendly sources on the "spirit side" who offer secret information to the "earth plane." On Sundays, standing in a pink chiffon dress in her pulpit, Bonnie will call out, "I want to talk to the lady in the pretty white dress. Those on the spirit side tell me to pass on to you a message not to worry about your lower back." To another woman: "Your husband has applied...
...trouble spotting Bella Abzug, beaming belligerently from under her familiar hat. Or Gloria Steinem in her granny glasses and jeans. But who was that lady in fluttering chiffon who looked as if she might have walked in from another era? None other than Lenore Romney, wife of George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She quickly made it clear that she was very much a part of the scene. She told the women in the audience to get hip to politics. She cracked an antisexist joke: "After God created Adam, he looked him over and said: 'I think...
...Gingerbread Lady, who bought a boy's outfit for herself last fall when she was shopping for her prep-school son. "She's an incredibly feminine woman," says Allen Murphy, an ad man and a longtime friend. "She usually looks best in a pouf of chiffon, but she really looks terrific in boys' clothes...
...film, currently in production, is called Bunny O'Hare, in which Miss Davis rides a getaway motorbike with Ernest Borgnine. Catherine Deneuve's pretty light looked for a while as though it might go out permanently under bushels of pachyderm. Tiny, flame-haired and frail in black chiffon, she stretched out on the Cirque d'Hiver tanbark and lay there, while a large male elephant stepped carefully over her and carefully lowered himself. Nobody breathed. But the elephant knew when to stop...