Word: silk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editors' fears of potential editorializing. So clearly the times weren't as tranquil as the gauzy haze of nostalgia would make them appear at first sight. As '46 classmate James G. Trager wrote at the time, the Service News was forced "to walk a tight rope carrying a fine-silk parasol" to maintain its pose of equanimity, and, one suspects, many other aspects of college life were forced to pursue a parallel course...
Women who demonstrate will wear a women's symbol with an "equal" sign, silk-screened on white material, which can be pinned to the back of the Graduation gown. Men and other supporters will wear armbands. The silk-screenings will be distributed at the same time as the gowns...
Wrinkles and Wisps. The new series of Museum Pieces, due for sale at Saks by the end of May, took even more scouring. One piece, an 1860 Chinese silk wall hanging from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, commemorates the 50th anniversary of a noble marriage; the figures are complete with embroidered wrinkles and fine wisps of hair. Jenny Bell backed the hanging with two layers of silk and cut it into two skirts (about $700 each...
...just any walls and windows, of course. Jenny Bell's long skirts, coats and dresses are made from venerable fabrics. Most of them-18th century Russian Orthodox deacons' vestments, Oriental silk wall hangings, early American quilts-were rescued from museum basements or bargained for at antique auctions. They were cleaned, reworked, cut and designed for contemporary...
...idea for museum fashions occurred to Jenny Bell in January when she heard that the Brooklyn Museum was having a housecleaning and went to have a look. She returned home with a 56-year-old embroidered Egyptian silk scarf and an 81-year-old American patchwork quilt. With scissors, thread and a bit of black velvet trimming for the quilt, two handsome evening skirts emerged. A few more finds and Jenny Bell had enough to sell to Saks Fifth Avenue. Mindful of her 13 successful years as a Seventh Avenue designer, Saks bought the lot at first sight. Displayed...