Word: chiffoned
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...limousines disgorge the great celebrities. There, with Actor George Hamilton, was Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar and a rented diamond necklace-which somehow got misplaced for a while backstage, provoking from Shelley yet another hysterical Academy Award performance...
...quick visit. But the Roman holiday was such fun that Jacqueline Kennedy stayed on for nearly a week, fox hunting in the nearby countryside, shopping at the high-fashion house of Princess Irene Galitzine, and visiting some of her other noble friends. In a cape and a white chiffon gown, she attended a dinner party at the 15th century palazzo of Prince Aspreno Colonna, next day bought toys for Caroline and John-John. Flying back to Switzerland to rejoin the family ski outing at Gstaad, Jackie took some other special gifts: a rosary and Vatican stamps that Pope Paul gave...
...brilliant than ever, he served up palazzo pajamas, long silk dresses in floral motifs. Princess Irene Galitzine, whose clients include Charlotte Ford Niarchos, showed sarongs and bras for sleeping, a long transparent raincoat and-along with practically everybody else-yards of pants. Much-applauded was her "Margit," a baggy chiffon nightgown-pajama with a low, frilly neck...
...such informality is unthinkable. "Women want to put on long gowns," he points out. "What else can give them that special gala feeling? Who wants to go to a formal dance in the same-length dress she wears all day?" To create that special feeling, Galanos depended largely on chiffon and sex. Taking a cue from the new bathing suits, he draped nude chiffon across deeply plunging necklines or stretched it tantalizingly across back or midriff. Some of the tops were too brief even to hide a bra, and the models had nothing to rely on but moral support...
...airline ticket to romantic places. The girl is in blue chiffon, the boy in a tuxedo, and they are dancing as if Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had coached them. They stop, gently holding each other, and then are held by an invisible silent partner, Eros perhaps, that mischievously demanding deity who turns a moment of playful diversion to the strong mysterious purposes of love...