Word: crepe
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...thought, Bojarsky set to work reading books about papermaking, visiting pulp factories on guided tours. Then, using a combination of rain water, cigarette paper and other wood fibers, he mixed his first batch of pulp in a secondhand bidet. Helas! The first sheet that he pressed looked "like a crepe suzette." Bojarsky persevered, made his first contribution to the wealth of society by passing one of his homemade franc notes in return for his Christmas chicken...
...wonder if Letter Writer George W. Cooley, commenting on Barbra Streisand [Feb. 18], realizes that a crepe suzette is nothing more than a degenerate blintz...
...Your item on Barbra Streisand in the Paris salons [Feb. 11] proves again that knish flambe never will be crepe suzette...
Norell did not stop there. After all, if one can wear a nightshirt to a museum opening, why not pajamas to a dinner party or discotheque? Made of loosely fitting silk crepe, his pj's are the last word in fancy pants, come either in solid pastel shades or striking two-tone jester designs. For those who want to dazzle as well as dance, he proposes black beaded pajamas, finished off with a fringe at the ankle...
Coin International, the leader of the new bond street, has achieved a 3-D effect by bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change...