Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dazed, a young girl in a pink dress crawled through the smoke and collapsed at the feet of a trooper; he hardly had to shift position to kick her in the side. A large group of Negroes clustered in terror alongside the brick school building; with measured malevolence, three troopers lobbed three canisters of gas in their midst. At one point, an eerie silence enveloped the field, punctuated only by what sounded like men kicking footballs; it was the hollow clunk of cops kicking and clubbing fallen marchers. A white woman, her blue dress streaked with mud and grass stains...
...beret until his knuckles whitened as he stood tautly at Lyndon Johnson's side. Nearby stood his wife, Anita; three sons, Daniel, 12, Terence, 9, and James, 7; and his daughter, Shannon, 2½, who from time to time glanced down with obvious pride at her fluffy blue dress and party shoes...
Five Cheaters. Harper's Bazaar editor and former model China Machado wore what she called "just me" beneath Yves St. Laurent's Cleopatra dress -a snowfall of shimmering spangles around bosom and hips joined by sheer, flesh-color chiffon. But others, who felt uneasy about the quasi-nude fashions, decided to cheat. Newporter Minnie Gushing, tall and stately with cascading hair, wore a body stocking under her gold latticework Desdemona robe designed by Oscar de la Renta...
...more than a bare bodkin. "I'm supposed to have on one body stocking," confided Gloria, "but I have on three." "I like to look pretty, not kooky," said Chessie Rayner, explaining why she put on a white silk slip underneath Bill Blass's fishnet A-line dress...
Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...