Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...River three miles up the river in Chester. The groups had come from all over: the Ancient Mariners from Guilford, Lancraft Fife and Drum from New Haven, the Chester and Moodus corps, the New York Regimentals, and the all-black Charles W. Dickerson Field Music from New Rochelle. Their dress was as colorful as their music was loud. Deep River's own corps led the parade, proudly arrayed in tricornered hats and scarlet colonial coats. The Ancient Mariners wore the motley collection of striped jerseys and white pants used by enlistees before the U.S. Navy settled on a common...
Even Emanuel Ungaro, famed for his superhard edges, turned his virtuoso hand to fluid fabrics, softly sashed dresses and loosely pleated skirts. His best look: a long dress in a pinwheel print, belted, bloused and all at once both elegant and sensuous. Dior's Marc Bohan is every bit as enraptured with the languorous look. Bohan softened his necklines with bows and scarf ties; and his hiplines had a series of stitched pleats that flattened first, then flared out. Deep colors glow like Tiffany stained glass; fabrics are light, jerseys, crepes and silk velvets. And again and again, capes...
Rhodes added, "It's not just whites and blacks. There are the older, established blacks and the young militants, people in power and out of power, the established whites and the young whites who dress outlandishly, the so-called hippies...
...meets a pretty young girl on assignment with the food patrol. Running with the shoping cart down these lovely San Francisco hills, they kiss, the girl's dress rises above her hips and they fall in love. All this however, is photographed through smoke, cheesecloth, and considerable confusion...
...special permission, lawyers will no longer be permitted to pace back and forth as they talk but will have to remain seated at their tables while interrogating witnesses. "Abusive language or offensive personal references" are out, and so is trading insulting thrusts and parries with opposing lawyers. As for dress, the new rules, by insisting on "business attire," seek to ban outlandish or distracting fashions...