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...Rome not long ago, a stroller stopped at a traffic light and stared at the girl in the convertible. Was that a very short skirt she was wearing-or a long sweater? No matter; he couldn't stop looking. That was when the girl reached into her glove compartment, pulled out a pistol and let the gawker have it right between the eyes...
...fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked out a real Shakespearean number with long sleeves, high lace collar and floor-length hoop skirt from the festival's storage shop...
...Christ's Apostles-St. Peter-had a wife, and as late as 867, a married man became Pope: Adrian II. It was not until the First Lateran Council in 1123 that clerical marriage was clearly outlawed, and even after that priests, bishops and cardinals continued to skirt the rule by taking mistresses. Alexander VI fathered at least four children before he became Pope in 1492. French Historian Henri Daniel-Rops estimated that in 15th century Burgundy, half the children born out of wedlock were fathered by clerics...
...designer to watch was Ken Scott, 41-year-old expatriate Texan who lives in Milan. For strolls by the sea, he suggested a silk T shirt, Bermuda shorts and knee-sock ensemble in a Japanese print. His silk-jersey print dress with a short, short skirt and flowing sleeves had one American fashion writer predicting that it will become "the new status dress...
...legs exposed to the hips. Tiziani had his models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...