Word: laurene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known to millions of TV viewers as Kitten, the youngest member of the Anderson family on Father Knows Best. But when the program ended its run in 1960 after six years, Lauren Chapin, now 38, lost a lot more than a dad who could cope wisely with any domestic crisis. Out of work and spurned by her alcoholic mother, Chapin spent the next 15 years in a twilight zone of casual sex, drugs and jail for forgery. Then, one epochal day, she walked into the Eagle's Nest church in Irvine, Calif. She recalls, "When the pastor said...
...decades women have raided men's wardrobes for their own clothing, appropriating everything from combat fatigues to tailored shirts. The current dress-for-success fad demands conservative suits for the office, and designers such as Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren create unstructured blazers and oversized jackets for the more stylish. Just when it seemed that there was nothing left in the masculine closet to imitate, Designer Calvin Klein has made a new raid: women's underwear boldly based on men's models. Women's Wear Daily is declaring it a hit. The collection, predicts the paper...
...Ralph Lauren, whose Southwest look a few seasons ago sparked interest in prairie skirts and cowboy shirts, is now touting a nautical line designed to make lifelong landlubbers look as if they belonged on a yacht. The centerpiece: a navy serge officer's jacket, complete with braided gold trim and shiny brass buttons...
...Still, it took Hearn eight weeks to learn to sing while simultaneously putting on makeup, as he must do in his first number, and he had trouble walking down stairs like a woman. Almost as bad were the jokes he had to endure. Friends sent him lingerie ads, and Lauren Bacall told him that when he was done with La Cage, he could take over in Woman of the Year...
...return to suspenders has also been spurred by changing fashions. Designers of more traditional men's clothing such as Ralph Lauren and Alan Flusser have popularized pants with a double front pleat. Explains Allan Ellinger, president of Alan Flusser Inc.: "The only way to make pleated trousers drape properly is to use braces...