Word: elsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covering grand pianos). Smart young matrons favor practical, less voluminous versions, often reversible and generally hooded. Pacesetters turn out in everything from Revillon's full-length black fox trimmed with chicken feathers and Adolfo's butterfly-wing silk kimono to the all-mink tent that Actress Elsa Martinelli wore over a sequined bathing suit at a Paris play opening. French, Italian and American designers practically all featured winter-weight capes last fall: those sent down the runways for spring are cut in breezy chiffon, ordinary denim and even terry cloth...
Bunting also quoted a remark by the late Elsa Mellon Bruce who donated more than $5 melon in honor of her daughter. She had commented before her death, Bunting said: "How fortunate it was we hadn't known that men would be admitted until now and that the building was planned for women. Otherwise some of the best civilizing features might never have been considered...