Word: satin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joel Porte, senior tutor in Quincy House said that anybody who "wanted to identify himself to me" as having satin was put on probation, but Porte declined to say how many students did this...
...single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach's picked half a dozen choice-and expensive-items, including a loosely shaped $1,400 black velvet cocktail dress featuring a large black satin bow, with puffs of black lace as collar and cuffs. Last week both looked like sure winners among the 40 dresses, suits and coats that Ohrbach's brought back from Paris...
...ballrooms and garages. Corman, a set-happy director, lets the furniture generate most of the suspense in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. You're on the edge of your seat, in anguish: Will the next chairs zipping into the picture be dressed in chintz or campy antique satin...
...living room complement a Chippendale sofa covered in needlepoint, an English secretary and an English gaming table. Mary Cassatt's pastel of Electra's mother hangs in her bedroom. Desk and dresser tops are crowded with silver-framed photographs of her children and grandchildren-and a white satin pillow on the bed bears the red-embroidered maxim: "We live in deeds, not years...
...front, just like overextended football jerseys. Rudi Gernreich is pushing a combination of what he calls the "Renaissance page quality" and the astronaut look, mixing his capes with Layne Nielsen's visored helmets, or putting together a long corduroy coachman's coat with vest, pants and satin ascot shirt ("It's a combination of George Sand and Cher...