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...evening ended with a brilliant ball at the red brick British embassy, where the most select 600 mingled in marble halls, danced past the gold pillars of the grand ballroom, relaxed at candlelit tables on flagstone terraces. One terrace was covered by a white silk tent trimmed in gold, ashimmer with garlands of tiny lights-all designed for the 1957 visit of Queen Elizabeth...
...large, Jackie settled into a holiday routine of reading and children-watching, with occasional water-skiing and village-strolling. Late one day she went on a shopping spree, bought a variety of silk blouses in greens and pinks, along with some velvet rope-soled shoes. She seemed just another mother when she took Caroline to an ice-cream party at the villa of an American friend, Dr. Judith Schoellkopf...
...Poland commissioned five original designs, considered by many the most interesting tapestries in the show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure-Nishiki demonstrated by Hirozo Murata's silk and gold Hunting, a scene of horsemen with bows and arrows. In Tsuzure-Nishiki tradition, Japanese weavers compress the weft as it is woven into tapestry, using their fingernails cut like saw teeth...
...Balenciaga and Givenchy) became Three. The fall fashion trends: more fur (on cuffs, collars, scarves and hoods); jewel shades of color (garnet, topaze and turquoise) along with the not-so-new fruit and flower tones (fuchsia, heather, plum and black currant); opulent fabrics (heavily worked brocade, beaded silk and lace). "The little-boy look," cried Women's Wear Daily, "is out . . . The Big Three have rediscovered...
...here You could have jumped The fence. I Admired that you should choose The Main Gate, touch Money, exchange Something of Yours for Something of the management's, (The shape of the ticket Window reminded you said the guillotine) That was before I Noticed the fence, the shreds Of silk whipping like flags On those hungry palings, Before I knew No matter how You get in here...