Word: chiffons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...most durable moths of Manhattan society, Nightlifer Hope Hampton, 60 (within an order of magnitude), poured herself into a yellow chiffon gown encrusted and strung with 41 clusters and strings of precious rocks borrowed from a New York jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested...
...point, wearing a white chiffon gown, she danced an elaborate counterpoint to her female accuser with sensuous assurance; at another she fluttered behind prison bars like a captive bird. In one of the ballet's climactic scenes she danced a sexy blues number provocatively clothed in a low-cut gown. "Perhaps," said Carla, who is so thin that her fans call her "little spinach," "the dress was not exactly adapted to my physique." But at ballet's end, fans applauded through nine curtain calls, echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since...