Word: fabricator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trickling down his neck when it rains. Currently splayed across the pages of fashion magazines and topping almost every plastic mannequin in department-store windows across the country, bowlers are being sold to real-life women at a furious rate. Most popular in straw, they come in every possible fabric from linen to leopard, can be made to look entirely new by a switch in ribbon color or the substitution of feather for flower. They are firm enough to hold their own high shape, are better even than the bouffant hairdo; nothing, neither wind nor compact car, is likely...
Drycleaning even by machine turned out to be no business for beginners. The plumbers, insurancemen, and merchants who set up shops found that almost every fabric posed a different cleaning problem and that customers expected them to take out spots and stains just like the more expensive professionals, whose drycleaning process takes 14 separate steps. Coin-op cleaning proved to be better suited for such bulky items as blankets and draperies than for men's suits and outerwear. Fulltime attendants (often required by local laws) sent up labor costs. Electric bills were high, and machines frequently proved unreliable. Clothes...
With this admirable equipment and range of interest, Mrs. Bedford wrote The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), a family study of the antediluvian fabric of Catholic European civilization that is regarded by a small but devout body of readers as a minor masterpiece. Now seven years after, she has followed it with A Favourite of the Gods, in which another family of aristocratic Europeans (this time, Italian-English-American rather than German-English) plays the complicated game of living by the exacting rules of class and faith...
...bikinis, the Ski Hut is definitely the place to go; already some bikinis as well as conventional suits, are in stock. One big hit is going to be the bikini in black vinyl ($17), fortunately sold with a short black vinyl coat ($21). Vinyl is a new plastic-like fabric which looks wet even without ever getting near the water...
...years since his death in 1901, the dwarfish figure of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been surrounded by a fabric of legends-that he was a lecherous troll, happy only when he lived in the midst of a bevy of rowdy streetwalkers; that he was a black sheep and a profligate driven from his home by a wealthy and outraged noble family. The truth of the matter may be quite the opposite, as a show called "Toulouse-Lautrec and His Family" at the Museum of Rennes, France, sets out to prove...