Word: minks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look is anything but matronly: bright, gay colors and trim, geometric lines characterize his designs; sheer luxury is one of their chief appeals. It is the kind of luxury that means fabrics costing as much as $140 per yard, three-faced wools, the most expensive silks for buttonholes, and mink used as pure adornment. Valentino's prices are commensurate. They begin at $750 for a dress, range up to $5,000 for an evening gown...
...Director Herbert Botts spluttered: "This is for members of Congress only." Replied Hawaii's Patsy Mink, 39: "Well, we're members of Congress." Indeed they were. And Patsy, along with Washington's Catherine May, 52, and Illinois' Charlotte Reid, 53, figured it was about time the eleven ladies in the U.S. House of Representatives started enjoying some of the boys' privileges-such as the use of the House gym and swimming pool. The three gals marched into the director's office to sign up for a new calisthenics class, quickly had Botts "turning...
Room 1415, the Presidential Suite, is occupied by Michael Rennie and Merle Oberon, the Duke and Duchess of Croydon, who have a bloody mess on their hands. The duke, a bit of a dipso, kills a small boy while driving drunk. The duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts...
...switching to skirts, some of them mini, more of them of the long, hostess variety. Turtleneck T shirts are In, but they must be made of synthetics, since cotton is very Out, even for skiing. Tom Jones shirts and hip-huggers are In; bell bottoms are Out. Furs, from mink and leopard to lynx and baby seal, are big in coats, hats and even skirts. Suede boots, fur boots, climbing boots and mod boots are In; so are tennis shoes...
...file cards listing several things she would like, and the husband dutifully appears to declare how much he can spend-and to make out his card, which his wife later uses as a guide. "Why not?" asked one woman in Seattle, setting down a description of a beige mink pillbox hat. "The year I didn't fill out a card, my husband gave me a sink garbage disposer." The system would have forestalled the contretemps of O'Henry's young husband and wife in his celebrated story of mismatched sacrifice, The Gift of the Magi...