Word: skirtsful
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Next time you pass Elsie's, notice the window of Sak's Fifth Avenue next door filled with things for women. In its new Boutique, Sak's is showing "a world of witty fashions" selected in New York. There are tailored wool skirts in solids and tweeds, mohair and bulky...
Whatever its material from burlap to brocade, a hostess gown assures the lady of the house comfort, glamour, and a kind of one-upmanship on her guests. After a day over the old hot stove, she can slip quickly and ungirdled into the easy camouflage of full-length draperies. And...
Where once she might have been expected to come apart like a sleeping pill in a puddle, she had turned near disasters into comedy skits and had brought off a remarkable performance despite a condition locally known as Chicago throat. She looked different, too. The wattles and jowls were gone...
The course, which skirts the edge of the athletic fields near soldier's Field Road, was blocked enough by mud and puddles, to prompt Floyd S. Wilson, Director of Intramural Athletics, to warn the house runners about "getting their feet wet."
In San'a, Yemen's mud brick capital, the forces of the revolution last week passed in review. Tribesmen galloped through the streets, wearing brass-trimmed bandoleers, with curved, wide-bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and...