Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are armful enough to keep their moms running, even if the moms were not already so inclined. Raina Ashley Washington, 13 months, is the daughter of Olympic Gold Medalist Sprinter Evelyn Ashford and her husband, Basketball Coach Ray Washington. Ashley Lynn Slaney, one month, belongs to Olympic Middle Distance Runner Mary Decker Slaney and her discus-thrower husband Richard. The tiny two were born on the same day, May 30, and when the two mothers and daughters got together in Eugene, Ore., where Slaney lives, she found the babies even shared the same name. "Both are very strong babies...
Marguerite Wels tugged at the bodice of her daughter's bridal gown. "Thank God," she said. "It's better than anything else we've looked at. But it will have to come in here...
Hold the joy for the ceremony. This is just part of a long, tough job. "Amy is such a skinny thing. So flat-chested," Marguerite has explained. "Nothing looked right." So Mother left her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and, with daughter in tow, journeyed to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, where she found Kleinfeld's and, at last, a suitable wedding dress...
...with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, adds it up simply. "There are fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose May 24 Los Angeles wedding to Steven O'Neill was followed by a reception for "300 of our most intimate friends," explains, "When it boils down to a choice between money and friends, you go into debt...
Nowadays the bride almost always wears white, no matter how many times she has been down the aisle. Anne Barge of Atlanta, who went into upscale bridal consultancy after designing a gown for former Georgia Governor George Busbee's daughter Beth, notes that satin and silk-satin blends are the most popular fabrics at the moment. "Organza is out, out, out," she says. "But tulle touches are coming back." Priscilla Kidder believes, "The girls went into ivory tones when the dresses their mothers had put away turned ivory from age. But wedding gowns themselves haven't changed. The most popular...