Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Manhattan after peddling his new perfume "Y" ($35 an ounce) from one coast to the other, the traveling salesman lounged around his Regency Hotel suite in a bright red sweater and red trousers, waiting for his frilled dress shirt to come back from the laundry. "I have two or three others," murmured French Fashion Prince Yves St. Laurent, 29, "but I just like that one. It's been to 30 or 40 parties on this trip." After all those parties, Yves wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Art. "I want to see Mondrian, the father...
...styles on sale at I. Magnin & Co., and indeed, Margaret's whole trip-together with her top-secret wardrobe-is meant, among other things, to boost Britain's $10 million-a-year fashion trade with the U.S. For the luncheon, Margaret wore a silver-and-white brocade dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated: "It is the kind of thing British royalty often wears, whether snipping a ribbon...
...first glow of dawn was just brightening the sky over Santo Domingo when a force of 17 U.S. tanks and 2,000 OAS troops in full battle dress rolled into the city's downtown rebel zone. Within an hour, the OAS soldiers set up sandbagged emplacements throughout the l-sq.-mi. stronghold that leftist rebel partisans still call "sacred revolutionary soil." Shouted curses and a few harmless sniper shots greeted the troops. Most of the city's 500,000 frightened citizens could give thanks that the OAS was acting in the nick of time to prevent the Dominican...
...fashion's growing Boy Wonder Yves St. Laurent got a special White House tour anyway. "Very bright, very gay, tres joli," murmured Yves. "The colors are very different from the colors one sees in Europe in such a house." Someone asked how he was enjoying his job in dress designing and such. "I theenk," whispered Yves, 29, fluffing his long, bushy sideburns, "I theenk if I could live my life over again, I would like to be a beatneek...
Nobody lobbied harder for a full-dress conference of the two trade groups than the Danes. Foreign Minister Per Haekkerup hopped from table to table at luxurious dinners, turned up at hotel suites all around town for whispered consultations with other delegates, even moved from his seat as conference chairman to intervene vigorously in the debate. The Common Market's crisis, argued Haekkerup, could lead to a major reshuffle that would produce closer economic and political ties throughout Europe-and EFTA should nudge things along. Reason for the Danish push: though EFTA as a whole runs a chronic trade...