Word: chiffoned
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Romance, in high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as are capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown...
...hard by the salesman: "Yes, I see how lovely it looks on the rack. You can just leave it there." At Alper-Schwartz she examined a pale green brocade: "That's a good mother-of-the-bride." At Ceil Chapman, she picked up a beaded taupe silk chiffon sheath (retail price: $395). At Estévez, she bought a few items that the trade describes as "church-and-drinking dresses"-they can go anywhere. "Air conditioning has changed the picture," said Opal, as she examined some woolens. "Used to be you couldn't buy a good, even slightly...
...much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles of jet, gold and silver; John Moore of Talmack has a sequined muu-muu that is more froufrou than a tutu, while several other designers are going in for encrusted chiffon, quilted gold lamé and damask...
...show girl and a star. The show girl: the name declaims the action-though in this case the lack of action. The show girl was there (and still is) to show. With three feathers in her hair, a glued piece of glass in her middle and some yards of chiffon here and there, she was required to have a face, a figure, and the ability not only to stand still in one place but also to walk up and down stairs and cross a stage without stumbling over her headpiece. Under no possible combination of circumstances would she be required...
...million pairs sold last year v. only 6,000,000 a decade ago. The pants boom has brought a revival of the culotte-pants cut to hang like skirts-to the point where designers are now making culottes in all sizes and fabrics, including culotte Bermudas and knee-length chiffon hostess models. So popular have dressy slacks become for evening entertaining that women guests are often trapped by a kind of fashion one-upwomanship: they wear dressy frocks and high heels for dinner parties, may be greeted by a hostess enviably svelte and comfortable in velveteen or brocade slacks...