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...many parents, plain old dungarees will not do. At Annelise Plehn's Just So boutique in Washington, D.C., for example, some customers are willing to spend $483 for a pink silk taffeta party dress for eight-year-olds. Comments Stuart Robbins, a retail analyst with the Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm: "Children's apparel and accessories are now a fashion business, not the commodity business they were when the baby-boom generation was growing...
...take the girl out of the Social Register (which they have), but you can't take the Social Register out of the girl. The formal charity affair in Manhattan last week was ever so just so--she in her pearls, taffeta debutante dress and full-length white kid gloves, and her brother Philipp Molzer in white tie and tails. After all, the honored lady of the evening was Sydney Biddle Barrows, 33, the New Jersey socialite whose family lines reach back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Barrows primly described the evening as "a lovely affair." Never mind that...
...next couple of hours Cornelia sits up high on the back of the banquette that she and her friends always occupy at Xenon, scanning the crowd. She drinks champagne (Moet & Chandon) and flicks Marlboro ashes from her pretty taffeta dress (Fabrice). Some time after 3 a.m., she leaves with Roberto for another discotheque, Studio 54, and stays there until...
...both came to meet the master snapshot artist at New York City's International Center of Photography. The two had never modeled the same clothes together on a professional shoot, but on this occasion- Miracle on Seventh Avenue-they were outfitted in the same dress, a black taffeta by a new fashion flash named Fabrice. It may be the most embarrassing thing that can happen to a woman, but, says Christie, "it does wonders for the designer...
...forgery. Reputable scholars agree, however, that there is no real question about The Fortune Teller's authenticity; its age has now been scientifically confirmed. It remains one of La Tour's masterpieces. Cleaned of grime and later repaints, it has a crispness and specificity of color, like taffeta in spring sunshine; and to see it in a room with seven other La Tours, including the Wrightsman Magdalen and The Musicians' Brawl, is to realize how the traits of style cited against it by detractors-the theatrical "unreality" of costume, the clear, generalized volumes of cylindrical...