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Hardly daring in design, the shift is nothing more than an easy-fitting sheath, comes either with sleeves or without, street-length or to the floor. It has a plain neck, and if it has sleeves, it has two of them. Although it comes in all materials, it is most popular in wool and most effective in jersey variants, which do what the sack was not permitted to do-cling...
...sized emeralds on tiny Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel Newhouse (see PRESS). There were a few chic and social standouts, such as golden-haired Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, who rode in a working hunter class in the afternoon, then appeared for the evening opening in a simple black sheath topped by a shocking-pink jacket. There was a scattering of celebrities, such as New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, Banker David Rockefeller, Actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Beatrice Lillie, and Playbore John Jacob Astor. But in general the crowd was so mousy that one society columnist was reduced...
Schwartz has ridden the postwar trend to national style in fashions and materials. "Take a dress like this," says he, fingering a "double-knit" wool sheath. "You can wear this in Nova Scotia or you can wear it in Atlanta when the temperature is 107 degrees." Schwartz and his Cornell-educated son Richard, 24, Jonathan Logan's executive vice president, now show new lines in Dallas or Minneapolis before they show in New York, discard models that go over poorly outside Manhattan...
...tanned Mamie Eisenhower, in a mottled print dress, alighted for her first homecoming in a year and a day. "Hello, Bruce," said the former First Lady to the doorman. She hailed a covey of capital newspaperwomen, then shook hands with her hostess Jackie, ashimmer in a green shantung sheath. After a peek at the refurbished Red Room, Mamie sat down in the Oval Room over raspberry tarts and tea with seven other senior leaguers working on a $30 million drive for the National Culture Center, hopefully to bring more performing arts to the nation's capital...
...Ever since Adam," said the platinum blonde in the sequined sheath, "man has been the leader and woman has followed...