Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lucius Beebe, 63, fulltime dandy, a Boston banker's son who once wrote that "the trivia of life may be the solution for all the ills of a fretful and feverish world," remained wedded only to elegance, which he took to be his taste in dress (top hat and morning suit), food (champagne and pate), railroads (which he glorified in books and in his private Pullman), and cafe society, whose doings he reported, first for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the San Francisco Chronicle; of a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif...
...designer to watch was Ken Scott, 41-year-old expatriate Texan who lives in Milan. For strolls by the sea, he suggested a silk T shirt, Bermuda shorts and knee-sock ensemble in a Japanese print. His silk-jersey print dress with a short, short skirt and flowing sleeves had one American fashion writer predicting that it will become "the new status dress...
...movie like The Hill makes it on dramatic tension alone, and sometimes a dramatically vacuous one like Red Desert makes it purely on pictorial grace. Sometimes a movie like Elio Petri's The Tenth Victim, with Ursula Anbuild-up that fools people into seeing redeeming graces gets a publicity dress, Marcello Mastroianni...
There's nothing exclusive about the electorate; it is made up of society editors, socialites, columnists and dress designers across the U.S. and Canada -in fact, just about anybody who writes in for a ballot. But their votes establish the pecking order among the world's best-dressed women. And last week, as the New York Couture Group promoted Jacqueline Kennedy to transient immortality as a member of the Fashion Hall of Fame, the voters filled Jackie's No. 1 spot with an all but unknown Manhattan socialite, 22-year-old Amanda Mortimer Burden...
...Galanos, such informality is unthinkable. "Women want to put on long gowns," he points out. "What else can give them that special gala feeling? Who wants to go to a formal dance in the same-length dress she wears all day?" To create that special feeling, Galanos depended largely on chiffon and sex. Taking a cue from the new bathing suits, he draped nude chiffon across deeply plunging necklines or stretched it tantalizingly across back or midriff. Some of the tops were too brief even to hide a bra, and the models had nothing to rely on but moral support...