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...unbuckled Sunbelt look made a big hit last month at showings in frozen New York, if only by way of contrast to the hermetic cover-up that made the city look like one big Central Parka. But the summer collections stood, and preened, on their own merits. In a way, they are antifashion. Unstructured, untailored, seasonless and often sizeless, the ready-to-wear and mostly inexpensive California clothes are simple, sexy, fresh, feminine and flexible. They are made largely of natural materials like cottons, light wools and silks, and favor loose ties and drawstrings rather than zippers, buttons and belts...
...staff. When New York Correspondent Marion Knox was assigned to cover the chilly plight of snowbound Buffalo (see THE NATION), she found that trains had stopped running, all highways were shut down, and no flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations to the stricken city. "Buffalo was a mess," she reports-streets unplowed, cars buried in snow, people carting groceries...
...heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late show, the well-booted suburbanite may be wise to invest in the commuter's equivalent of a mink coat: Eddie Bauer's Eskimo-designed, nylon and cotton Superior Polar Parka with hood ruff of natural coyote fur ("comfort range -70° to 50° above") for only...
...wouldn't have believed it," Roberts said yesterday, adding, "I played in a ski parka, gloves...
HAYDEN HALL is plunged into a slimy mist at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. A bearded fellow wearing a blue parka lurches across its granite steps. "Go picket Louise Day Hicks's house," he barks into a portable loudspeaker. The Committee Against Racism (CAR) is trying to mount a demonstration...