Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garter (those that do, tame enough when standing, reveal flashes of thigh beneath the new short skirts that make sitting down as much a pleasure for male onlookers as it is a comfort for their girls). Mary Grey has textured tights in stretch nylon, Beautiful Bryans in nanny-white lace, and Kayser-Roth promises some misty spring numbers abloom with flowers from tippytoe to waist. The ultimate extension, of course, is the jumpsuit; Capezio has one in white ribbed stretch nylon ($33), Bewitching in sheer black lace ($15). First meant to be worn "under everything from evening dresses to shorts...
...even that incident he treasured as an early assertion of his "aesthetic sensibility." And if he needed any corroboration, he was simultaneously registering "very precocious, yet extremely intense impressions of the beauty of little girls. I was sorry I was not a girl myself so I could wear ravishing, lace-trimmed white panties...
...anti-American jeremiads. In fact, deadpanned the actor, he gives most of his loose pence to the Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris, the invitations specified evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron...
...cross to native shores to fill in the spaces exposed by plummeting necklines and high-riding shorts, offering new methods of engineering that open vistas in unexpected places. Cole of California used fishnet to screen a deep isosceles plunge ($26), Rose Marie Reid to add a jeweled lace topping to a maillot ($50), while Designer Bill Blass took a big breath, and a giant step, left gaps where gaps had never before been left, and let flesh fill in instead of fishnet...
Gone today from the boards that count are the stacks of plates and flatware wrapped in napkins; vanished, like the overhead light, are the women in sensible, street-length silks. More and more, the discriminating tables across the land are set with ornate silver on cloths of heirloom lace. And, gleaming in the dim, expensive light of tall candles, sit some of the handsomest people in some of the handsomest dresses that the age provides. The New Elegants have rediscovered the pleasure of dressing...