Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boots and belts, hats and handbags, shirts, shawls, coats and evening gowns, even linens, lampshades and wallpaper - all bear the stamp of the serpent. Genuine cobra can be had as a raincoat, simulated copperhead as upholstery fab ric. And women known to keel over at a photograph of a python are now swaddling themselves in the real thing...
...scale, and London Designer Jean Muir has a whole group of satin separates, all slithery with the python pattern. America's Adele Simpson and Bill Blass have embossed the markings onto vel vet and chiffon; Halston has gone so far as to tie-dye scarves to look like cobra coils...
...jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork belt pouches and spats and the cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan's Casa Cuero boutique isn't interested in just...
...aesthetics with Mr. Aubrey would be quite futile, as the producer of The Beverly Hillbillies is apparently a stranger to "the science which deduces from nature and taste the rules and principles of art" (American College Dictionary again). It would be like arguing honor with a mule. Or a cobra...
Lindsay could remain a Republican, although for the moment his future in the G.O.P. looks rather forlorn. He and Nelson Rockefeller coexist with all the benign symbiosis of mongoose and cobra. Since Lindsay's own city G.O.P. organization would not back him last fall, he could hardly fare better with the state Republicans controlled by Rockefeller. If Lindsay cannot win the governorship or a place in the Senate-both seats are occupied by liberal Republicans -he has little hope of winning a future place on the Republican national ticket. Still, if he waits until 1974 to run for Governor...