Word: dresses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abandoning his normal theater of operations in Hollywood, Director John Ford, 72, took an old costume out of mothballs-the dress blues identifying him as a rear admiral, U.S. Naval Reserve. A genuine salt with combat service during World War II and the Korean War, Ford arranged to put out with the fleet on three weeks' temporary active duty. Flying to Marseille, he caught up with the cruiser U.S.S. Columbus, joined the staff of an old war buddy, Rear Admiral John Bulkeley, who commands a Sixth Fleet flotilla. Admiral Ford posed on the bridge like Captain Bligh, then settled...
Star of the showings was West Coast Designer James Galanos. His dresses were often tailored close to the figure, and belts were placed high to emphasize the bosom. One culotte dress had large, oval-cut armholes, another a V neck slashed almost to the navel. Evening gowns featured the bare look with slanting necklines draped off one shoulder...
James Shuman, who plays Bill, a slum-bred dress designer, does the most emoting and hence the least satisfactory job of acting. With gestures, with whines, with studied intonation he works to paint a figure only outlined by the playwright. Moreover, his English accent often holds up only at the beginnings and ends of sentences, leaving him to conduct the middles in harsh American...
This second objective has led the student leaders to dress their criticism in the establishment's language and manner. Their letters and statements have been moderate and restrained, delicately balanced and qualified. In appearances at press conferences--pipe-smoking and neatly groomed, in striped tie or three-piece suit--they have carried the image of responsibility and reasonableness across the national networks...
...nothing to keep away 850 journalists and 550 buyers, for whom Paris is still a prime laboratory for new ideas. And they found plenty to report. Not that skirts were longer; Feraud's hemlines, for instance, ranged from three to five inches above the knee, and hardly a dress in any of the showings could be worn by a woman over 35. "All that's missing in these collections is diapers," snapped one conservative couturier. But on the principle that when skirts keep going up, something must come down, designer after designer rediscovered shorts, called forthrightly "les Bermudas...