Word: fuchsia
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...Laurent's elevation to the ranks of the fashion greats, the Big Two (Balenciaga and Givenchy) became Three. The fall fashion trends: more fur (on cuffs, collars, scarves and hoods); jewel shades of color (garnet, topaze and turquoise) along with the not-so-new fruit and flower tones (fuchsia, heather, plum and black currant); opulent fabrics (heavily worked brocade, beaded silk and lace). "The little-boy look," cried Women's Wear Daily, "is out . . . The Big Three have rediscovered...
...jewelry and fancy lingerie-in general, things that women would not think of buying for themselves but are delighted to get. Though men generally stay with the standard white or blue (pink has long been out), the trend in slips and nightgowns is to printed designs and new colors-fuchsia, green, coral...
...West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
...never before, it seems, has the Festival stage been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore. Slender wears a pink doublet, amber hat, and ridiculous flowered chintz trousers...
...anyway, the Police Commissioner, with his gay motorcycle escort, was well ahead. Eight young majorettes high stepping proudly in their cerise cunics and white wild west boots, came prancing after them. Marching along squarely behind their majorettes were two girls supporting a felt banner boasting the words, figured in fuchsia on a green field, "Roxville Junior Marching Band and Music Team." And directly behind them came the marching band and music team in its full strength, playing a lilting interpretation of "McNamara's band...