Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resonant Welcome. The arrival of the Pope each summer-like the arrival of President Nixon in San Clemente-is a gala event. The 4,900 villagers of Castel Gandolfo, who normally support themselves by producing good white wine and some of Italy's tastiest peaches, dress in their Sunday best. The tricolored flag of Italy and the gold-and-white banner of the Vatican wave from every building. Bells peal out in resonant welcome. With the summer Vatican come the tourists, especially on audience days, and restaurants and souvenir stands do a brisk business...
Died. Abraham Zapruder, 65, Dallas dress manufacturer who took the only closeup motion pictures of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; of cancer; in Dallas. Carrying an 8-mm. movie camera loaded with color film, Zapruder posted himself near the Texas Book Depository and started filming as the presidential motorcade rolled past. In detail, the approximately 20-sec. sequence shows the bullets striking the President, and the panic of that moment. Portions of the film later appeared in LIFE, and became important evidence for the Warren Commission...
...Women still follow the leader," says Henry Clements, a dress-manufacturing consultant in New York. "When cold weather comes in, you can bet that the longer look will be universal." Bill Fine of Bonwit's takes a boudoir view of the midi: "My feeling is that it's like seduction. It's not whether a woman will go for it, but how far she'll go." John Fairchild's wife Jill admits that she did not like the long skirt for the longest time. "But Johnny kept bringing me things," she says, "indoctrinating and brainwashing, and now I think...
...worldwide attention when his report that Jackie and Rose Kennedy had spent $30,000 on a Paris shopping spree became an issue in the 1960 presidential campaign. (Jackie pouted: "I'm sure I spend less than Mrs. Nixon.") He mixed fashion scoops with big names: Princess Margaret's wedding dress, Lady Bird Johnson's Inaugural wardrobe, Happy Rockefeller's trousseau, Jackie's leopard coat (when she first emerged from mourning), Lynda Bird's wedding dress. Under Fairchild's prodding, WWD began building up jet-setters like Gloria Guinness, Isabel Eberstadt, Amanda Burden and Baby Jane Holzer (what ever became...
...autocratic. The wives of political figures became favorite targets. A photograph of Mrs. Hubert Humphrey was captioned "That little old dressmaker is at it again." A simple dress and jacket worn by Mrs. Stuart Symington became "another one of those 'dumb' costumes." Society and show business regularly get theirs in WWD too. Just last week, Fairchild ordered up a layout on women who "become walking billboards for all the latest status symbols" and "allow fashion to wear them." He even gave them their own initials, FV (Fashion Victims). The caption for FV Barbra Streisand, shown in the transparent Scaasi costume...