Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work on a project basis. One is Bill Gayten, a cutter for Galliano. While novice tailors listen, he talks about the designer's famous bias-cut dresses, many of which he has worked on. Galliano demands toiles (patterns) not of traditional muslin but of the same fine fabric the gown will be made of, and will not look at a garment in progress unless it is on a live model. It's a long, painstaking, expensive process...
...Adventures of Captain Neato-Man," the superstraight young Larry (Nick Parillo) comes to an apartment in response to a secretarial ad. Timidly entering the open door, he soon finds himself cornered on the couch by a lusty woman in a leopard-print dressing gown (Jessie Conrad), who accuses him huskily of breaking in and trying to take advantage of her. Just then a curly-haired apparition in full superhero gear bursts...
Showing her witty fashion sense, local flautist Paula Robison modelled a sassy red sequined gown and offered the delicious post-modern program of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" she had transcribed for flute. Robison enchanted a predominantly upper-crust Back Bay audience on Sunday at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum with her effervescent and joyful presence...
Think of an aging musician stopping on a street corner where a great dance palace once stood, yearning for one more Big Band night, when men in white dinner jackets pressed golden horns to their lips while a woman in a red evening gown with a flower in her hair sang plaintively of love...
Cambridge and Harvard officials attributed the final accord to common goals and a lengthy process of town-gown consultation...