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Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...
...self-taught from Arden's Rome salon two years ago with a bagful of tricks (beige foundation, pink and white eyeshadow). He took the fashion world by storm with a series of eye fantasies for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in which he used peacock feathers, sequins, lace, flower petals, even diamonds, all painstakingly pasted onto eyelids in fanciful designs. Some eyes took as long as five hours to do, but they made the magazine covers, earned Pablo special beauty awards and the run of Elizabeth Arden's Fifth Avenue salon. There a covey of beauties (Virna...
...welcoming ceremonies, and crowds were sparse when De Gaulle's black convertible Simca rolled up in a drumming rain. De Gaulle looked glum himself as he toured the annual Lille trade fair and peered myopically through thick-lensed horn-rims at model rail ways, bridal gowns of Lille lace, and a pair of red-trimmed pelicans that expressed the mood of the day by turning their backs on the President...
...spring and summer wardrobes. Mama Anne McDonnell Ford, 46, picked an evening outfit of bright pink sequins, but her girls, Anne Ford Uzielli, 23, who expects her baby in December, and Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 25, whose child is due this summer, bought loose-fitting, quieter frocks of black lacquered lace and peau de soie. Since Charlotte and Anne are both beatified on the Best Dressed list and Mrs. Ford is canonized in the Fashion Hall of Fame, the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard became curious about the new glad rags and sent a photographer over...
...business is still going strong, but almost anyone with a little money can now have a coming out, and if a debutante will choose to forgo her party and take a trip to Kenya instead, not even the caterers will care. Weddings still have the traditional trimmings, including white lace and tears, but many couples now insist on writing their own wedding service or at least varying the hallowed music; the customary wedding marches have begun to give way to Handel's Water Music, Haydn's St. Anthony Chorale, or even Spanish guitar tunes...