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...described by Carmichael as the "kids who go to Europe one summer and to Alabama the next"), were the ones who got MAW started. "I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world," she said. "We don't care whether you're blue, purple, or brown with yellow polka dots, we want you to work with us if you are sincere...
...bees -painting their knees. Max Factor has already introduced painted designs, and other cosmetic houses have followed with everything from butterflies to zodiac signs. To be ready for the beach, Revlon has rushed onto the market waterproof paints that will withstand the surf. Other manufacturers are putting out vinyl polka dots, eyes, lips and flowers that can be pasted onto legs. There are even gaily colored decals for finger-and toenails. And just in case the message is not getting across, some teen-agers are stenciling at knee level even more legible messages to the eligible, reading "Looking...
...exulted a Democratic legislator. "It's just like old times!" There in the capitol at Lansing, sporting his familiar green, polka-dot bow tie and pumping hands all around, stood G. Mennen Williams, looking for all the world as if Michigan were Mennenland again. Greyer and not quite so well packaged as when he left the governor ship in 1960 after six straight terms, gangling Soapy Williams had come back to campaign for the U.S. Senate...
Umbrellas are considered practical items, not usually objects for beautification. Some manufacturers have strewn them with flowers or polka dots, but the steady demand is for the ubiquitous black number-as exciting as an American cheese sandwich...
Coin International, the leader of the new bond street, has achieved a 3-D effect by bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change...