Word: dressing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...insisted on getting the material for fashion sketches earlier than anyone else. Women's Wear has come to pride itself on scoops, from revealing Jackie Kennedy's Paris buying sprees during the 1960 election campaign to printing the first sketch of Luci Johnson's wedding dress -an act that caused the paper's reporters to be banned from the wedding...
Among Alexander's similarly sized harvest, the buyers are especially proud of a St. Laurent daytime dress of cream-beige crepe with a subdued use of beads. It is, says one, "the Ford of our collection"-something everyone will want. Also interesting: a Patou white worsted dress that is close to the body, with a flared skirt and four rows of horizontal stitching; it is considered the best trend indicator. "It's the princess line all over again," says a buyer. Like Ohrbach's, Alexander's was active in the Italian mar ket too. It will...
...Though dress and skirt lengths are any woman's guess this year, there are definite trends, not only to belts, but in the attention paid to the waist, and in the overall softness of fit, particularly in skirts. Says Alexander's Lorrie Eyerly: "This year's styles are soft but still architectural. Instead of boxy little shapes a la Courreges, the skirts are flared. Suits and the waist are really back. And we see the princess silhouette as the most important line coming out of Paris...
...unpretentious restaurant in Manhattan's theater district, an unpretentious woman tucked a napkin in her dress and wolfed a hamburger lunch. Not that the dress was worth protecting; it was just another tent. After finishing, she wiped the napkin across her mouth. No need to freshen her lipstick; she wore no makeup. Then she strode out in her beat-up pumps-and as if on cue, heads turned, cars slowed, and a sailor rushed up at flank speed. "You're in the movies, aren't you?" he asked. "But I can't remember your name." Said...
Besides, going out might require her to dress up. "When I was a kid, I worried about the way I looked," she says, "because other people always looked better. But I've come to the point in my life where I realize that looking good takes time, and I don't have that time. I appreciate people who do-you know? I don't look down on it. Now, I never wear hose. And the reason I do not wear hose is, No. 1, I have to shop for them and, No. 2, I have to wear...