Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bobby. She knelt over him, whispering. His lips moved. She rose and tried to wave back the crush. Dick Tuck blew a whistle. The crowd began to give way. Someone clamped an ice pack to Kennedy's bleeding head, and someone else made a pillow of a suit jacket. His blue and white striped tie was off, his shirt open, the rosary clutched to his hairy chest. An aide took off his shoes...
...advisers were concerned, this was Robert Kennedy's long suit. Despite the obvious difficulties posed by his bluntness and verbal outrage, Kennedy's message had a purpose: to console and reassure America's "outs"--bitter blacks, exploited farm workers, and war-weary students. These were the groups which were falling out and had to be pulled back in. This is why Kennedy saw himself as the candidate of reconciliation. Given the circumstances, it didn't seem as important if the groups which fought him--generally the wealthier elements, hidebound Republicans, and segregationists--were a little miffed. Besides, it was quite...
...fact, chains have been unobtrusively hanging around for years. Chanel, for instance, has long fashioned rope necklaces out of tiny links, which she also uses stitched to the inside hem of suit jackets to add weight. Today's big chain reaction began in 1966, when Yves St. Laurent designed a belt made out of bold brass circles that quickly became a boutique bestseller. Now St. Laurent's latest belts are twice as wide, and there is hardly a jewelry designer who is not now clanking out chains...
Gold-Plated Bikini. Chains are even becoming complete garments, themselves. For French Singer Franchise Hardy, Paris' Paco Rabanne recently created a suit of aluminum chain mail that weighs 34 Ibs. Says Francoise: "It forces me to exteriorize my sentiments, using only my voice, my eyes and my face." Translation: she can't move. Less weighty are the glittering chain tunics and boleros of Loris Azzaro, at 35 the fastest rising designer in Paris. True, the chain micro-dress he turned out for Brigitte Bardot's New Year TV special weighed eight pounds, but that did not prevent...
Even bolder is Giorgio di Sant' Angelo's gold-plated chain bikini, which depends for modesty on two layers of chains; hopefully, even if the outer layer parts, the under layer of smaller baby chains will provide a veil. Rustproof, the suit can be worn swimming. "Chain on the nude body can be very decent," insists Sant' Angelo, who gives the hippies credit for putting the chain back into fashion. Says the Manhattan designer with approbation: "They took the symbol of bondage and transformed it into a symbol of emancipation...