Word: garfinckel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designs are soft-top versions of the heavily boned "Maginot Line" prom gowns of the '40s and '50s. Recalls Pat Johnson of Washington's Garfinckel's: "It used to be with the old strapless things that you moved one way and the dress the other." Today's no-straps are made of soft, clingy fabrics such as matte jersey and chiffon. Strapless bras are rarely worn. Says Martha Ferris of Chicago's Bonwit Teller: "It's bareness without blatancy...
...bareness is a big reason why the look has caught on. Women are more body conscious than ever-and anxious to show off their well-toned torsos. As Garfinckel's Johnson puts it, "Women are playing tennis, going to spas and generally taking better care of their bodies-and are proud of them...
...game, which has just gone on sale at such stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and Garfinckel's, is appropriately known as Petropolis. Adapted from the Monopoly formula ("Only I made it more beautiful and up to date," De Rosnay says modestly), Petropolis involves oilfields, rigs and derricks rather than real estate, houses and hotels. The aim of the game is to pile up the most exclusive oil concessions and fattest profits on a board divided into sections named after the 27 most petroliferous nations...
...Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With the aid of photographs and sittings, Williams created a series of plastic Pams as a display gimmick for Sakowitz windows. Not to be outdummied, Gimbel Bros, requested a model of Heiress Sophie Gimbel; Garfinckel's in Washington, D.C., asked for their well-known fashion director, Sally Frame...
...early briefings and last-minute musing. The study always had the clean, swept look of Nixon. His pipe was cradled in a clean ashtray. The papers he needed were lined up. His two briefcases were set in exact positions beside the desk. There were two cans of Garfinckel's pipe mixture on the desk, a black telephone to the side, the inevitable Nixon Dictaphone on a corner, his reading glasses atop the papers...