Word: sleeveless
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...throwaway: a little tweed jacket that suddenly turns out to be lined with sable, a simple something buttoned up to the neck that unbuttons-if you just happen to feel like it-to reveal a splash of Schlumberger or Verdura in emeralds and diamonds. He was making the sleeveless sheath long before Jackie Kennedy made it a clich...
...secret (besides what's under it), the secret is versatility. It comes in a vast selection of fabrics -solids or prints - varying in length from several inches above the knee right down to the ankle, though the definitive summer version is apt to be cotton, plain-necked, sleeveless, and fairly short of skirt, with side slits topped by tiny bows. Priced from $2.98 to about $50.00 the shift can go practically anywhere on practically anyone. It is fine for toe-testing at the ocean's edge, or to cover up wet bathing suits for drinks on the clubhouse...
...does, loudly, what she thinks is fashion and what is not: "It's UTTERLY bad; it's COMPLETELY divine." Says Designer Stella Sloat: "She always picks the sleeper. She is the champion of the nothing look." She is credited with originating the craze for skinny pants, the sleeveless dress, turtlenecks, and the Italian haircut...
Brooks's success is largely due to the U.S. woman's shift to the basic philosophy of French chic: comfort and simplicity as opposed to the cinched-up complexity many another designer has confused with high style. Brooks's clothes are generally sleeveless and unclinging; he does not think that tight fits are elegant. Says he: "My clothes are not meant to be worn by people who have no personalities of their own." One of his personality people is Jacqueline Kennedy, who picked three of his dresses for her tour of India and Pakistan...
...ordinarily the dullest of the six official receptions that protocol requires the President to give each year.* Reporting the party for the New York Post, svelte Marion Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator Jack Javits, wrote that "the First Lady was stunning in a white satin sleeveless dress embossed with brightly colored flowers into which tiny pearls were sewn. She wore long diamond and emerald earrings and a diamond hairclip." Another fashionplate was Harlem's own Representative Adam Clayton Powell, strolling around in "a green Austrian evening jacket with a black velvet collar and, for buttons...