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...Rudi Gernreich (of the topless-suit Gernreichs). He is a fashion moderate in step with the day, inventive but practical, inspired but patient. His virtues have paid off in a long line of fashion hits: the evening shirtwaist, the empire look, the chemise, the wool evening dress, the sequined sheath and culottes...
Merrie calls her father "Sir." Tippy calls Walker "Daddy" and saves empty Walker-Gordon milk bottles for him because his name is Gordon Walker. In a situation when Merrie wears standard, tasteful red lipstick, pleated schoolgirl skirts and loafers, Tippy wears heels, sheath dresses and no lipstick. When Merrie walks, she moves with rhythmic and graceful steps. Tippy takes enormous, preoccupied strides. A father walking with them can only say to himself: "I'll take one of each...
...undersurface as well as other alarming examples of shoddy workmanship. The VA kept patching up the structure, finally decided to strip off every one of the hospital's 1,575,000 bricks, remove all 5,000 windows and window frames and replace them with new windows and a sheath of steel panels. Total cost...
...throwaway: a little tweed jacket that suddenly turns out to be lined with sable, a simple something buttoned up to the neck that unbuttons-if you just happen to feel like it-to reveal a splash of Schlumberger or Verdura in emeralds and diamonds. He was making the sleeveless sheath long before Jackie Kennedy made it a clich...
...President's heady words were relayed to the crowd through an interpreter. But such was not the case when Jackie. dressed in a pink sheath, stepped to the microphones. In excellent Spanish and a firm and confident voice, she praised the Cubans and said: "I feel proud that my son has known the officers. It is my wish and my hope that some day he may be a man at least half as brave as the members of Brigade...