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Word: taffetas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally there were oodles of Kennedys. Eunice Kennedy Shriver looked ladylike in cerise taffeta by Cardin. Joan Kennedy, the wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, swirled by in lavender crepe slit to the tops of her thighs. But sitting two rows in front of Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy was an unlikely figure: an Australian girl in T shirt, blue jeans and bare feet. Having come to stare, she had been given a ticket by an unknown man. "Are you staying?" asked a bystander. "My God, yes!" she gasped, then padded dazedly to her choice seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Grand Night in a Superbunker | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...satin-lined velvet for night, cutout minitunics over pants and slinky skirts, and a gaggle of see-through blouses. Givenchy shaped his long dresses with meticulous pin-tucked pleats, and emphatically ratified the romantic look with a black velvet pantsuit rounded at the hips and ruffled in black taffeta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Punch, Oui; Power, Non | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

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