Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carol Horn, 39, a Coty winner last year, also covers the world-Japan, Rumania, Guatemala, India-but on a budget. A native New Yorker who had no formal fashion training, she uses offbeat fabrics that "people want to touch," and makes inexpensive multipurpose clothes such as a crinkled cotton caftan. "My ideal garment," she says, "is one I can walk around the house in, toss over a bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected...
...choice for an all-occasion best suit is John Anthony's pale gray-heather cotton-jersey long-sleeved, shirt-collared jacket, pleated wrap skirt and ivory muscle-sleeve T shirt ($210). The suit jacket can be worn with Anthony's matching pleated trousers ($60) by day. The look can be varied with the addition of Blassport's long-sleeved ivory polyester crepe-de-chine front-buttoned shirt ($44), which can be worn partly buttoned and knotted around the waist for a casual evening...
...weekend shopping, country strolling or office wear, how about Ralph Lauren's tan cotton-madras pleated pants, known as the "Fred Astaire look" ($76), with matching unlined blazer ($170). For variety, swap the pants of this fresh crisp outfit for Calvin Klein's buff poplin elastic-waist fly-front trouser skirt ($63). For work or casual lunches, either variation of the ensemble can be worn with Klein's buff T shirt, which is cotton knit, with a crew neck and long sleeves ($11.50), or Lauren's tan knit T shirt with roll sleeves and crew neck...
...Scotch-Irish Carter arrived in Virginia before the Revolutionary War, and over the years the family moved farther south, to the southwestern Georgia hamlet of Plains (current population: 600). Cash-poor but land-rich, the Carters eventually accumulated some 2,000 acres of farm and woodland, raising peanuts and cotton. By Plains standards, they were patroons, leading citizens in a society keenly aware of hierarchy...
James Earl Carter Jr., the oldest of four, had a typical rural boyhood. When he was not at school he was working in the fields. His home lacked electricity and running water. Initiative was esteemed. At nine, he bought five bales of cotton with money he had saved from selling peanuts and stashed them away. A few years later, he sold them for enough profit to buy five old houses in Plains and became a landlord. The venture made him a confirmed capitalist...