Word: drips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman traveler is rapidly moving out of the Drip-Dry Era into the Smashable Age. For years, her only alternatives were paying excess-baggage fees for wrinkleable clothes of regular stay-at-home weight, which had to be pressed again and again, or going lightweight and drip-dry, in the universally recognizable tourist costumes of Orion, nylon or Dacron, which, if well enough styled at times, were never really chic. But in this season's suitcases, wadded and crumpled like hasty lumps of dough, are vacation wardrobes of considerable elegance and style. The seemingly unsalvageable lumps emerge as slight...
Although the Pucci fabric has not yet been successfully copied, there are less expensive stretch fashions, many of which make up by low cost what they lack in high style. Some of them add the drip-dry feature to crushability. Among them: Haymaker's flowery separates in a drip-dry warp knit, $29.95 each; and countless, nameless nylon shifts, $10 and up. The knits follow closely on Pucci's stretchy heels: Kimberly's wool dresses with jackets ($59.95), three-piece suits ($59.95 and $69.95) and plain dresses ($49.95 and $59.95), all in solid, placid colors with...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Eddie Albert in a drip-dry drama, Famous, in which he plays a Broadway composer determined to keep his bumptious children out of show business...
...intricately jeweled Eye of Silence, Ernst placed two wet painted canvases together, pulled them apart, let his fancy take over. At one time Ernst even experimented with a technique he called "oscillation.'' He pierced cans of paint and let them swing gently over the canvas. "Surprising lines drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this.'' The Loplop Spirit. Tricky as these techniques sound, they never intrude upon the painting; what might have been mere sleight of hand turns into genuine magic...
...Pure Defense." In 1944 Jackie was sent off to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn.-accompanied by Danseuse, her mare. One summer she made the grand tour of Europe with three other girls, a chaperone from Holton-Arms and a drip-dry wardrobe. ("We would spend all night washing.") She had a keen and retentive mind, effortlessly stayed in the top tier of her classes. But she seemed to fear scaring her friends away by being both beautiful and bright, often hid her intelligence behind a mask of schoolgirl innocence. Recalls Socialite Jonathan Isham: "She was so much...