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...have twelve friends to a black-tie dinner party, then asks from 30 to 60 more "for a nightcap" afterwards. The late comers provide "the new blood" that "keeps the dinner guests from drooping." An added aid is a small Hungarian band imported for the dance-minded. Elizabeth Oxenberg, 26, is a genuine-though deposed-Princess of Yugoslavia who eloped four years ago with Seventh Avenue Manufacturer Howard Oxenberg, still lends an air of royalty to the social circuit. But most titled ladies are simple American girls who married romantic foreigners. Spain's Countess Quintanilla, for instance, was plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The New Elegants | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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