Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boutique named San Francisco depicted the suicide of a lovesick heiress: the first window showed her talking on the telephone in the stateroom of her private yacht, surrounded by bottles of liquor and sleeping pills; later ones displayed newspaper headlines telling of her death. The heiress was wearing a silk blouse priced at $125; the store swiftly sold out its entire stock of the blouses...
...over the cobblestones outside came a rattle of horse's hoofs. Soaking wet and mud-splattered, his face gray with fatigue, Delaware's third delegate, Farmer Caesar Rodney, had ridden all night from Dover after an express rider informed him of his colony's stalemate. He wore a green silk handkerchief, now nearly black with road dirt, to cover the lower part of his face, which is afflicted by a cancer. "The thunder and rain delayed me," Rodney said matter-of-factly as he entered the hall...
...trend seems even more advanced in the Colonies. The bag wig, with its black-silk sack to encase long braids, and the shorter bob wig, with neat rows of curls about the sides of the head, remain popular. But the wigless look, once associated with fashion iconoclasts like Benjamin Franklin, has already been adopted by no less a pacesetter than General Washington...
...Italians are coming, the Italians are coming-to New York City. Their beachhead: Fifth Avenue, the home of Saks, Tiffany and the Easter Parade. Their mission: to plant the red-white-and-green flag of Italian luxury products-from $50 silk scarves to $150,000 necklaces-profitably in American turf. At last count, in an eleven-block stretch of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, there were eleven Italian botteghe, each one apparently striving to be the most exclusive shop on its block. "Fifth Avenue?" asks the proprietress of one recent arrival. "Oh, you must mean La Quinta Strada...
...infamous Tower on one side of the stage, and of a 16-century English village on the other. Linda Beyer's costumes demarcate character with style and color; especially stunning is the apparel she designed for bride and bridegroom--matching outfits of forest green velvet and light green silk, evoking images of verdant woods and fertility...