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Take-Off Pants. The costume look-or the "rich hippie" look, as it is sometimes known-is not just the prerogative of the young. Socialite-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, 44, is one devotee. Greeting guests at her recent one-woman show in Washington, D.C., she wore silver lamé harem pants, matching vest, rhinestone earrings,'bracelets, a brooch and six gold rings. "My dressing is a natural extension of my art," says Gloria, who specializes in collages...
...ascendant." One case in point is Adolfo, 35. Long exclusively a high-fashion milliner, he has lately added a line of interchangeable boutique clothes, which he sells to the likes of Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mrs. William Paley. They take his "bits and pieces"-harem pants, long midi coats, shirts, vests and skirts-and combine them into what Adolfo calls "the anti-Establishment way of dressing for the Establishment...
...have the pick of my brother's harem." Lucille Ball to Raymond Burr in The Magic Carpet...
Nuggets & Emeralds. Kenneth Lane, Manhattan's top man for expensive costume jewelry, likes to drape fake-moonstone-studded chains around waists and necks, even rings ankles with rhinestones sewed onto stockings. Lane believes that his belts ($75 to $300) are just the thing to dress up the popular harem fashion, the formless caftan...
Salutary Shake-Up. Shaw's energetic speechmaking to civic groups has also given the Establishment a salutary shaking up (his opener at the Junior League: "I feel as if I'm in the midst of a huge, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant harem"); and he has served notice that he hopes for even greater changes to come: more tours, participation by the orchestra in opera and ballet productions, creation of a conservatory in Atlanta...