Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Noble Savage." Nyerere has turned over the job of Westernizing the Masai to Aaron Weston Mkwang'ata, the commissioner of the territory in which most of them live. Mkwang'ata has instructed tribesmen to throw away their animal skins and skimpy loincloths and "dress in something better than a dirty sheet or a meager yard of cloth that exhibits your buttocks," has also warned them against allowing tourists to "take your naked pictures." He has backed up his crusade with penalties. In the past few weeks, about 250 Masai caught disobeying the new regulations have been locked...
...only the prudish nationalism of his socialist state but a black backlash against foreigners who, Mkwang'ata claims, romanticize the Masai as "walking, talking specimens of the noble savage." However, as an English-language newspaper, the Tanzania Standard, points out, Nyerere's policy ignores one fact: "To dress lightly makes sense in the heat of the tropics...
...also a sample of the kind of dress that has made debonair, soft-spoken Oscar de La Renta, 34, the most talked-about and envied new young designer. Born in the Dominican Republic ("Most of my family were diplomats; my father was in insurance"), Oscar opted for art, switched" to fashion in Paris, where he designed for Lanvin before coming to the U.S. to work with Elizabeth Arden. On his own for only two years, in September he picked up his first Coty American Fashion Critics Award ("Winnie") as the best U.S. designer...
Nothing Exaggerated. De La Renta is strictly a wholesale designer (exceptions: his wedding dresses for Anne Ford Uzielli and Minnie Gushing Beard). Among his customers are Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and all the Kennedys except Jackie, whose loyalty is still to Rome's Valentino. Says De La Renta of his dress of the year: "It's very feminine. There is nothing exaggerated about it, and many different types of women can wear...
J.F.K.-The Childhood Years was an informal and warmly touching half-hour of reminiscences by Rose Kennedy, 77. Composed and strikingly attractive in a hot-pink dress, she was interviewed by CBS Newsman Harry Reasoner in the simple three-story frame house in Brookline, Mass., where President Kennedy and three of her other eight children were born. 'To give courage to other mothers because so many people are discouraged about their children," Mrs. Kennedy mused about her son's chronic tardiness and lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice...