Word: marimekkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those looking for Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, or Andy Williams, please repair to Reno." A bossa nova group called Brazil '65 and Jazz Pianist Joey Bushkin have been doing the opening honors. Couples, both invigorated and intoxicated by the rarefied air, shuffle about the floor in Pucci gowns, Marimekko shifts and madras jackets. For those who do not mind the cold (a windy 50°), there is dancing outdoors in a setting of spotlighted pines and crags. Refreshed by a late theater supper of shrimp Creole or beef stroganoff, customers spin on until 1 a.m., when the gondolas take...
...find no lace or ruffles here." Again this spring she's showing shifts along with the newer looking A-line skimmers and fitted dresses. Her hottest number: the essential linen skimmer ($15) in black, blue and putty, too. Mrs. Bragar does not "get on the band wagon with the Marimekko jazz" and subscribes to a delightful sartorial inverse snobbism...
...Marimekko Grows...
This spring Marimekko has come of age. Veering away from the pseudo ivy league button-down, shirtwaist styles, and the blatant tents for which it had become known, its lines are tamer. However, the effect is definitely on the wild side. A few styles retain excess fullness, but most are slimmed down and even semi-fitted. The trend from small geometric and corny floral-like prints to bold architectonic designs is an improvement. Wrought iron and fossil prints as well as the large circle designs really grab you. Specific spring shapes are back fullness, semi-A (fitted to waist), real...
Upstairs, the war of the Marimekko raged. A male spectator might have thought that Dior--not DR--was holding the sale. Few 'Cliffes--but almost every other Cambridge lady--armed themselves with the gaily colored Finnish shifts and mounted to the third floor, where the vice-president's office had been hastily converted into a mass dressing room...