Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They seemed to be simply everywhere, even when they weren't. On the cover of the February Ladies' Home Journal was a likeness of Jackie Kennedy in wedding gown and veil; it was actually a photograph of Mary Lynn Merrill (nee Caldwell), a Charlotte, N.C., bride who looks more like Jackie than Jackie does. On the cover of Photoplay magazine was the bona fide Jacqueline Kennedy, with Daughter Caroline at her side. The story inside: a lengthy comparison of Caroline and Shirley Temple. Said Photoplay: "We waited 20 years until another little girl, Caroline Kennedy, came running into...
...grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels. Dior's Marc Bohan, however, departed only slightly from the closed-Dior shape of the past. Although he lowered belts until they fetched up on the hips, Bohan...
...Laroche and Cardin lowered theirs; Dessès, Patou, Crahay. Goma and Bohan stayed within striking distance of the kneecap. Other touches: almost every designer stuck ruffles on his models, snapped wide belts around everything-even evening dresses (Balmain, who dresses Thailand's Queen Sirikit, belted a wedding gown). Apart from sex, the only other area of general agreement in Paris was color. Apricot was very big, followed by orange, yellow and the so-called sherbet colors...
...Doloris Bridges should be a formidable candidate. The daughter of a Minnesota doctor, she learned lots about the ropes in Washington while working in seven different federal agencies. She met Styles Bridges at a Washington dinner party, when he helped her after the butler had spilled wine on her gown. They were married in 1944 (Bridges had been divorced from his first wife, and his second had died). In announcing her candidacy last week, Doloris Bridges evoked her husband's memory: "I believe I can best carry out his ideas, his unfinished work and our joint convictions." Asked...
...floor if she had wished to. She had arrived in court in pigtails and a little girl's dress, so Giesler asked the judge to make her wear the clothes she had worn the day of the "rape." After she showed up in a low-cut crimson gown, Pantages was acquitted...