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...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...
Exactly what the athletes will wear in the opening parade will be settled by ballot. This summer millions of shoppers will be asked to choose among the three costumes shown above: a preppie ensemble, a running suit and a Western getup. To encourage participation, voters will be eligible for $165,000 in sweepstakes prizes...
...with young medical student with a full head of hair on the slopes near Lake Tahoe. In Forbidden Love, a CBS-TV movie to be aired next season, Yvette Mimieux, 39, fits the role of the older woman with nearly the same aplomb that she fits the Suzy Chapstick getup. "It's an outfit that I thought would appeal to a student of anatomy," says Mimieux. Or for that matter, a student of architecture, a student of air-conditioner repair, a student...
...made for him a few years ago by Mariani. As soon as word leaked that they would be white tie, virtually every formal wear rental store in the capital was stripped of tails. In accordance with the Cinderella rule, which precludes a new First Lady from disclosing her gala getup, Nancy would not say what she will wear for the ball, though rumor has it that it will be a white gown by Galanos, one of her favorite designers (price for the ordinary buyer: up to $8,000). She will wear white shoes and carry a rhinestone-decked white handbag...
...Orleans: Cover Girl Christie Brinkley, who was simultaneously posing for a fashion article in France's Elle magazine and photographing the action for Fight Promoter Don King. The winner: her gold lame paper jumpsuit. "It was like being wrapped in a Baggie," she said. Yet the incendiary getup had more than a few fight fans burning for a match...