Word: tartan
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...Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...flock to the Eve Bar, where Mandy Rice-Davies recently made her professional debut (as a singer) and dress-busting B-girls quaff French champagne while nudes stroll through a cage full of tigers. Aleco's, headquarters for the sports-car set, has walls hung with a Scots tartan, sells Scotch for only 50½ a drink. As the jukebox blares, the patrons-clad in everything from Dior gowns to dungarees-stomp through the hully gully. Munich's promiscuity is an unleering sort, and only during Fasching does it become objectionable...
...Girdle Needed. Once the uniform of ballet dancers (who wore the real, torso-covering thing), leotards were snatched from behind the practice barre, called tights, and put in department-store windows some five years ago. They were first shown under tartan skirts for college girls, and bought not as particularly proper but as overwhelmingly practical. No girdle or garter belt was needed, and no longer were knees, neglected between the long socks' end and the slip's beginning, left bare to redden in the cold; slips, in fact, might be completely forgotten, too, as the long tights were...
...traveler arriving by plane at any of six major U.S. cities from St. Louis to Houston need only dial a phone number and within minutes a sweet young thing in a tam-o'-shanter and tartan skirt will pick him up in a station wagon, drive him down the road a stretch, and hand him a key. The key is for one of Thrifty Rent-A-Car System's 1962 or 1963 model autos, and the net rental is about 20% below the rates charged by Hertz, Avis or National, the Big Three of the billion-dollar...
Children's fashions, in which Italians are tops, turn rather romantic too. Zingone shows a boy's overcoat with a short tartan cape and a terribly clubby suit (they'd love it at Princeton) with suede torso, checked tweed cuffs and collar. Little-girl styles are more restrained, stick to lowered waistlines, gently flared skirts with deep box pleats...