Word: tunics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle also cruised aboard the 6,400-ton presidential yacht, whose opulence included deep Turkish carpeting. De Gaulle was attended by a nubile Turkish blonde clad in a red veil, blue tunic and diaphanous harem pants. Local wags had suggested that De Gaulle had an even chance of sighting a Soviet warship en route to join the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. Though nothing was said about the impressive Russian naval buildup, De Gaulle had ordered a fat file on the Soviet fleet a week before the trip...
...designer has worked with them more skillfully. As an ex-dancer, she likes their freedom. But she also likes variety: "No reason not to wear pants one day, a short skirt the next, a long one the following day." In her fall collection, Luba has pants with a tunic top. "If you get too hot," she explains to customers, "go to the ladies' room, remove the pants, and you emerge in tunic and tights-perfectly presentable...
...other pain brought on by civil war in the world's largest black nation. In an open truck near Owerri, rainwater seeped into a glucose bottle attached to the stomach of a chocolate-brown corporal identifiable as "Lucky Devil" from the nickname sewn into his bloody tunic. The truck, carrying a dozen wounded, had fallen into a culvert tunneled out by retreating Biafrans. Rain also slowed the stolid march of exhausted refugees from displaced minority tribes heading south from the fighting...
...mass-market ready-to-wears, known as prét à porter-and to more pants, more boots, more chains, more turtlenecks and, of course, more transparency. For his fall collection, André Courrèges' main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark. Not to be outdone, Yves St. Laurent turned out an even more daring evening gown, then produced for everyday a series of wide-cut pants suits just possibly ugly enough to be chic. At least Lauren...
...line of skin-colored suits embroidered with white flowers. The wearers look trim and nude -from a distance-while remaining covered and helpfully girdled. "It's sex and conservatism in one package," Miss Cole states. Another camouflage is a new version of that old favorite, the tunic, which hangs loosely to the hips and adds a touch of shadowed piquancy to the flab within...