Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. No chance, then, for a $2,000 Norman Norell evening dress (Jacqueline Kennedy's choice as First Lady), or any of the $600 Mollie Parnis outfits beloved by Lady Bird Johnson; Mrs. Nixon spends only about $145 for a daytime ensemble, $300 to $400 for a formal gown. Miss Treyz's fee is the difference between the wholesale and retail price. When a choice is made-as many as 50 possibilities are shown to Mrs. Nixon by designers who drop into her New York hotel suite at appointed hours during her stay-the dress is custom-made...
...Bird's sense of theater did not emerge until she was well into her White House residency. Pat Nixon is barely emerging from the wings, but at a preview last month of Bob Hope's Christmas show, she turned up in an apricot-colored, clipped-velvet evening gown by Beene that lent a new breath of chic to the proceedings. With Clara Treyz beside her, the salon vote may yet be hers...