Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fabrics, more than color, are the big highlights. Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry...
Hats & Trims are playing up fur. The pillbox may go back on the medicine-cabinet shelf (did Jackie overexpose it?) to be replaced by small, back-of-the-head berets of lizard and other exotic game, while furry cuffs and banding tone up the dresses. Fringed shawls in brocades, silks and satins are widely shown. Branell, among others, dresses up a daytime suit with mink...
...Only the lizard crawls on the dry stones...
...Regina, and diners at the Sabena guest house could still enjoy coquilles St. Jacques, snails and mussels flown in from Brussels. With the flood of U.N. soldiers in town, the souvenir business was bigger than ever; on every street corner, the inevitable Hausa traders from Nigeria offered carved ivory, lizard handbags and ebony figures at prices tailored to the foreigners' handsome wages...
...surface. They found some coelacanth fossils first but ignored them as commonplace. Then they split another slab, and Alfred knew at once that they had come upon something extraordinary. In the shale was the 7½in. skeleton of a delicate creature that looked like a cross between a lizard and a monstrous dragonfly. The boys started to clean the fossil but had sense enough to stop before they did damage. After keeping it for a while, Alfred dutifully brought his find to the museum...