Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specialty, however, is custom-made dresses. She will draw what you describe, take your measurements, and show you her fantastic collection of imported fabrics. Among bolts from Spain to Siam you may select a hand-screened or blocked cotton or silk. One fitting, two weeks, and $25 (and up) later, you will be the proud owner of a Kitty Haas original...
...France's Red Boss Maurice Thorez, could have stepped out of the Galeries Lafayette, if not Dior. Once-dowdy Lotte Ulbricht, married to East Germany's lackluster President, could pass as a well-to-do provincial Hausfrau, and India's Aruna Asaf Ali looked striking in silk, making it hard to believe that as a dedicated saboteur she once moved the British to put a price of 10,000 rupees on her head. "Our Congress is a manifestation of charming womanhood, motherly warmth, moral and physical beauty!" gushed La Pasionaria, quite a little off the mark...
Money-losing items have been cut without sentiment. At Samuel Courtauld & Co., a division dating back to the days when Courtaulds was mostly famous for silk mourning crepe, uneconomical lines of fabrics for clothing and industry were eliminated. Explains Kearton: "The important thing is to stop promptly when you see you are on the wrong track...
Backstage at the Valley Forge Music Fair, Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, 45, had to take off his hat to Actress Mamie Van Doren, 30. The State G.O.P. gleaned $100,000 from a $100-a-plate Straw Hat Spectacular. And Mamie, an after-dinner treat in Silk Stockings, turned out to be the best dish of all, adding her own gossamer footnote to history. "My dressing room was very girly-girly," she reported later. "We didn't talk much. I thought he was a little flushed when he came in. Then I told him I was a Republican...
Irma La Douce. "How did a nice girl like you get into a racket like this?" a customer asks. "Well," says Shirley MacLaine, pulling on green silk stockings, "I was studying music at the Paris Conservatory, and on the night of my first recital, the piano lid fell on my hand...