Word: gown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair of knee breeches on busily pedaling half-mannequins. On the top floor, some 18th century costumes move in almost antic procession on mannequins molded like silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera in a ravishing gown by Charles Frederick Worth; across the gallery, an array of simple cottons and linens arranged as if for a Sunday outing at a park creates an effortless paradigm of everyday elegance...
There are several entries on fashion's sublime kooks. Elsa Schiaparelli, a blithe and irreverent spirit, jazzed up the '30s with her whimsical lambchop hats and red-apple purses. Roberto Capucci still does what he has always insisted on doing, creating one outrageously intricate gown and never replicating it. Charles James, the most brilliant American designer ever, was shackled by paranoia and notorious business dealings. He died broke and nearly forgotten in 1978, but the influence of his fabulous ball gowns remains, whether they are executed in a Paris atelier or a Hollywood costume department...
Thirty years later, the 50-year-old junior eats at his old eating club, the Cap and Gown, and is president of the Flying Club...
...same town-gown cooperation which Harvard capitalized on in the planning of University Green should be a model for the proposed dormitory and any other building projects on the drawing board. If the University is not prepared to be a good neighbor, then any future building plans will head in the same direction as the ill-fated Fogg Bridge Connector--another long planned Harvard structure that has yet to be built because of community opposition...
When Diana does manage to get out of the house on her own, she displays the friskiness of a boarding-school student on a weekend of freedom. At a recent charity ball in London, she wore a silver drop-dead, bare-backed, broad- shouldered gown. Instead of leaving at midnight like a proper Cinderella, as is the royal custom, she was still dancing at 2:30. A month later, while Charles was away, her sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale persuaded Diana to go to a country house ball in Leicestershire. The bachelors were too timid to ask her to dance. Exercising...