Word: sheathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and remain equally timely in the 1960s. Norell pioneered culottes and fitted jackets with pleated skirts several seasons ago, showed the now universal pants suit in 1964. His most famous dress is undoubtedly the basic, columnar, $3,000 sequined full-length sheath that he has been making, with minor variations, since around 1954. - Philadelphia-born James Galanos, 42, who has worked out of Los Angeles since 1948 because "I like it here," and besides, "if you are good, people will seek you out, no matter where you live." They do, although...
Katharine Balfour, dressed as Calpurnia, even hacked up an old nightgown to wear under Pauline Trigère's see-through black lace sheath. "I'm just furious at her," fumed Trigère, who had intended the dress to be worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked...
...film that did survive was remarkable nonetheless. With their ship facing backward during its return into the earth's atmosphere, the astronauts took some vivid color movies of a sheath of gases glowing with purple, blue and green incandescence as it was heated by the friction of the spacecraft's passage. They were the first re-entry photographs ever taken. As Gemini plunged into denser atmosphere, the colors increased in brilliance: a sharply defined blue shock wave expanded, and hot, golden fragments ripped loose from the glowing heat shield to shoot past the window in a dazzling stream...
...Actor George Hamilton, was Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar and a rented diamond necklace-which somehow got misplaced for a while backstage, provoking from Shelley yet another hysterical Academy Award performance...
...sack. The sheath. The tunic. The tent dress. Each new look required a closetful of new clothes. But never has the housecleaning been as thorough. Now it appears, the very underworld of women's fashions has been unmasked, the standard lingerie wardrobe has been suddenly rendered obsolete...