Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashion world as Jane Derby, designer since 1930 of dresses for petite mature women, herself a diminutive (5 ft.) Virginia socialite who over the years turned out an elegant line of high fashion and ready-to-wear, usually trimmed with bows, was most popular for her "little" black crepe dress that could see a woman from after noon into evening; of a heart attack; in Bermuda...
...Vogue and snapped up by such fashion luminaries as Mrs. William Paley and Actress Anita Colby-is the dress of the month, and sounds one of the strongest fashion chords of 1965: the one-bare shoulder look. Jackie Kennedy may have triggered the trend when she wore a black crepe version for her first formal outing after a year of mourning. It has been used by Balenciaga in a $3,000 evening sari, by Givenchy in a flock of dinner gowns and daytime dresses, and by most top U.S. designers, whose fall lines were previewed this month. Vogue calls...
Before Lee's little thing, there were a couple of teeny, tiny dinners. Jacqueline, in a white silk crepe evening dress, had two tables of ten for an entree of stuffed veal, and on her right was the white-maned dean of U.S. conductors, Leopold Stokowski...
Princess Radziwill arrived in a long, lime-green silk crepe by Yves St. Laurent, edged with gold. Mrs. Kennedy's guest list had plenty of show business: Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Movie Producer Sam Spiegel and Broadway's Mike Nichols, Sybil Burton and Arlene Francis, plus Economist J. Kenneth Galbraith and Politicians Robert F. Kennedy, Pierre Salinger and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...showings got under way, the overall tone was soft-pretty rather than bold, more flattering than fussy. Gerard Pipart, 31, in his second season at Nina Ricci, caused a major ripple with coats slashed up to the waist, long double-breasted jackets and dresses, most made of silk and crepe, cut on the bias to leave the figure looking long and lazy...