Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trudging down the reception line as another girl entirely, so everybody had the most awful time sorting out Elizabeth Funston, 18, Virginia Guest, 18, Jocelyn Kress, 18, and Fernanda Kellogg, 18. But then the ritual began as always with the Coming Out Waltz, followed by the Garland Dance, the Polka Sleigh Ride and the Christmas Star, in which the gals kneel in the dark, hold candles and sing carols. Meyer Davis' band struck up Every thing's Coming Up Roses, swung into rock 'n' roll for the watusi, frug and monkey lovers. And before anybody realized...
Bikinis and maillots, blousons and middies, all spilled off racks and shelves around the country. Styles were simple (fewer turtlenecks and full-length sleeves than last year), patterns bold (with slashes of stripes and oversize polka dots predominating), and colors smashing (incendiary pinks and theatrical splashes of black on white were favorites). But the real news were the models made, at least in part, of fishnet...
...fourth movement, Bartok follows a humorous polka-like dance with a very schmaltzy singing theme played in the string section. Dr. Yannatos conducted the polka without frivolity and plunged straight into the succeeding theme...
...Royal Suite of Los Angeles' venerable Ambassador Hotel, a man clad only in dark-rimmed glasses and a long white nightshirt with red polka dots sat watching television. On the screen, Richard Dix was battling his way against great odds through a 1941 horse opera called The Round-Up. After many a cliffhanging episode, the Good Guys vanquished the Bad Guys, and the Grand Old West once again was made fit for Decent Folks...
...fabric from poplin to pique to patent leather, and in price from less than $5 to well over $100, they come single-breasted, double-breasted, belted in back, on the sides, all the way around or not at all, spill off the racks in solid colors, stars, stripes, prints, polka dots and patterns. This year's favorite is flowers: from A for aster to Z for zinnia, they make a coat a serenade to spring; its wearer becomes a veritable walking garden. All make superb between-season coats, but then there is this little problem: not one is waterproof...