Word: satine
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Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...change lies in France's exquisite fabrics-luxuriant silk, crepe de chine, shantung, georgette, satin. These are meticulously cut and joined, often on the diagonal introduced in the 1920s by Madeleine Vionnet -who is inactive but still alert at 97. The "bias cut" makes clothes drape sexily against the body. Since the favored fabrics of 1974 are gossamer-thin and always unlined, they need, even demand ample length to prevent skirts from being unintentionally hoisted at the slightest breeze. The result is a calf-length skirt that is wider, freer and not quite as long as the ill-fated...
...Glamour. Some of the more affluent customers, such as Barbra Streisand, Sally Struthers and Diana Ross are teaming the new tops with satin pants, tweeds and other expensive items. The tops are also being paired with slacks and sporty blazers. "This all started as a junior-sportswear fad," says Jules Lebetkin, president of the boutique sportswear firm Catch-A-Guy. "It's a kind of trendy, rock-star flashiness that anybody can have fun with...
...hunt or fish-I just party," says Bernie Brodkorb. He is wearing a purple vinyl Vikings jacket and a little feathered purple felt hat. "Thank God I like the color purple," says Lois, whose loyalty extends down to her purple fingernails, matching purple velveteen pants and purple satin vest...
...like his bride is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture. Trieia was in pink chiffon and Husband Ed wore a dark gray pin-stripe suit, but many of the guests came in jeans or granny dresses. Mazie started out in her great-aunt's ivory satin wedding gown and ended up hi a bathing suit and Indian shirt. For the ceremony itself, the guests were arranged in a circle symbolizing the Cheyenne medicine wheel. Later, a magician "levitated" the newlyweds and finally made them disappear In a puff of smoke...