Word: soie
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...emerald peau de soie and a rhinestone choker, Mrs. Norman Mailer No. 5 was singing the blues. In a Stockbridge, Mass., boite not far from the Mailer homestead, former Nightclub Singer Carol Stevens, 41, ran through a dozen old standards drawn mainly from Helen Morgan's repertory. Torch style, Carol aimed a few of the numbers directly at an impassive Norman in a stageside seat: The Man I Love and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. She also sang Gee Baby, Ain 't I Good to You after acknowledging to Male Chauvinist Mailer that it was really...
Rather it is the wide, colorful butterfly version. A man can decorate his Adam's apple with anything from a variegated stripe on peau de soie to a jacquard design on woven silk. A few of the old bowmen, like Soapy Williams, have made the switch. Having turned in the skinny bows he wore as Michigan's Governor (1949-60), Williams, now a state supreme court justice, sports butterflies instead. He insists that they are "more handsome and comfortable than the other kind...
...Mama Anne McDonnell Ford, 46, picked an evening outfit of bright pink sequins, but her girls, Anne Ford Uzielli, 23, who expects her baby in December, and Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 25, whose child is due this summer, bought loose-fitting, quieter frocks of black lacquered lace and peau de soie. Since Charlotte and Anne are both beatified on the Best Dressed list and Mrs. Ford is canonized in the Fashion Hall of Fame, the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard became curious about the new glad rags and sent a photographer over to Mrs. Ford's apartment...
...that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones in varying shades of pink. Mrs. Eisenhower's junior partners as official Washington hostesses are the wives of Cabinet officers. Mrs. John Foster Dulles has been ill-but most of the other ladies were trying on gowns for the inaugural ball and were photographed...
Harlem's "400,'' dressed fit to kill, sashayed into Harlem's Renaissance Ballroom to acclaim its No. 1 debutante, lissome, chicory-colored. 18-year-old Wezlynn Margaret Develle Tildon. Swathed in demure Victorian mousseline de soie, Debutante Tildon stood in a receiving line beside her mother, who drawled: "There has never been a daughter in our immediate family who was not properly presented to society...
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