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...quite a bit pregnant, Mrs. Patrick Nugent, 19, was back home for the first time in five months visiting with her parents and Lynda at the White House. "It's nice to feel elegant again," she confessed, as she stole the show in an A-shaped apricot chiffon gown at the dinner honoring Turkey's President Cevdet Sunay. The baby is expected June 17 or thereabouts, and the Nugents are still grappling for a name. "Kimberly is my favorite name in the whole world," confided Luci. "But since I couldn't wait and named my dog that...
...whatever happened to little knobby-kneed Princess Anne? Well, she's a big girl now-and a pretty one, too. Arriving at a London theater to see a couple of saucy French plays, dressed in a blue silk gown, bejeweled and wrapped in a fur stole, the 16-year-old princess-on holiday from school-looked for all the world like a femme du monde, pouting at photographers from under loose-flowing hair...
...Lawford, joining a glittering list of 500 who paid $100 each to help the Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured. But it was the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who drew shrieks from the people watchers outside the theater. Resplendent in a blue-and-pink Givenchy gown, the duchess turned and waved. The duke, after blowing some stogie smoke at photographers, went to shake hands enthusiastically with fans in the crowd...
...dress seem like the Model T Ford. Mars Manufacturing Co. of Asheville, N.C., is the nation's leading producer of paper dresses, sells 80,000 a week. From its basic A-line shift ($1.75), the company has expanded its line to include bell-bottom jump suits ($4), evening gowns ($5), aprons ($1.35), and men's vests ($1.99). Sterling Paper Products aims to gross $6,000,000 this year from such items as a $7.50 zebra-print pants suit, a $15 bridal gown, an $8 maternity dress and 40? children's pinafores-just the thing for ever-sprouting...
...kind of luxury that means fabrics costing as much as $140 per yard, three-faced wools, the most expensive silks for buttonholes, and mink used as pure adornment. Valentino's prices are commensurate. They begin at $750 for a dress, range up to $5,000 for an evening gown...