Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diamond Studs. American designers were not to be outdone at the Esquire-sponsored show. Bill Blass demonstrated his fondness for the military look with a heavy, maxi-length overcoat. For evening, John Weitz, a onetime race-car driver, showed a Levi-styled dinner jacket worn over a collarless shirt with a red bandanna knotted around the throat. Francis Toscani, who designs Botany-brand suits for a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer, aimed for versatility: the pocket panels of his fitted lounging coat were attached by Velcro strips and could be removed to convert the coat into a short Eisenhower jacket, presumably enabling...
...Angeles. Current symbol of the freer male attitude is the turtleneck pullover now being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with French cuffs. Another evening alternative is the Russian-style, high-collared rubashka (cossack shirt), which buttons up the side and is much favored by Colonel Serge Obolensky, the White Russian public relations man from...
Mainly responsible for launching men into high fashion is Paris' Cardin, who set the styles for subtly belled trousers, zippered "cosmocorps" suits, Nehru coats and velvet dinner jackets. For Cardin, it has paid off handsomely: today his menswear outsells his women's clothes by 10 to 1, and his line is carried worldwide by stores from Tokyo to Moscow...
...recalls, "I went back every day and skated until I was exhausted. I would get up in the morning and put on the porridge pot, then go out to skate until breakfast was ready. I used to skate all morning and afternoon, and only come home for meals. After dinner, I always went out again, and Mum would have to send my sisters out to bring me home...
...Like most other Americans, I have become steeled to the "television war" watched on the early news across the dinner table. Television coverage of the attacks on the U.S. embassy, therefore, caused only a momentary pause in the trajectory of my peas from plate to mouth...