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...thing as a last-minute fill-in for a vacant slot at a Johannesburg theatre, play the show as if they had never seen it before. Equally enthusiastic is Kendrew Lascelles, the chief comic, who also devised some of the choreography. Mr. Lascelles, periodically strolling on stage wearing a floor-length black coat and carrying a tuba that he cannot play, looks like a banana waiting to be peeled. He also has a way of bunching up his entire torso into his breast, a trick he's likely to pull anytime, anywhere, and for no rational reason...
...Taylor, 35, and it would be a shame to let all that experience go to waste. So when her two friends Mia Fonssagrives and Vicky Tiel showed their first collection in Paris, Liz contributed her own inspiration for a nuptial garment: a white body stocking worn under a diaphanous floor-length veil embroidered in flowers. But that was nothing compared with the outfit that Liz wore to the opening-a tunic and tights of hyperkinetic geometric pattern. "She's not supposed to be chic," explained Mia. "Her career requires that she be stupefying...
...matching shorts, or with a pony-skin raincoat. If she would rather be Tom Sawyer, Chester Weinberg has just the thing: avocado green velvet overalls that come to midcalf, and are topped by a lace-trimmed blouse. With George Stavropoulos, she can play the Greek goddess in classical floor-length gowns trailing yards of filmy chiffon...
...girl Cossacks - a long beige coat bordered with fur and tied with a belt, to be worn over a minidress and shorts with thigh-high leather boots. Pauline Trigère offers the medieval look with hooded neckpieces that come off to reveal deep V necklines in close-fitting, floor-length gowns with long sleeves. For lady football fans, there are Geoffrey Beene"touchdown" dresses - long, sequined sacks in purple with yellow shoulder patches or arm stripes and big numerals on the front, just like overextended football jerseys. Rudi Gernreich is pushing a combination of what he calls the "Renaissance...
...were some Maxis. Weinberg did a couple in velvet, but he also showed many skirts that came three inches to five inches above the knee. Jacques Tiffeau offered up some Maxis, or "midis," as he calls them, but he, too, paraded a number of minis, some dramatically teamed with floor-length "Minuit" coats. Most designers seemed to side with Trigere: "I don't believe in the midi, or sweeping New York dirt into your apartment." Thus, in most collections, though skirts are floor length for evening, they fall somewhere above the knee for daytime, and are almost always...