Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fabrics, more than color, are the big highlights. Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry...
Kennedy joined the field after hounds moved off. Riding her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, she wore rat catcher: brown boots, riding breeches, tweed jacket and black velvet hunting cap.* There were around 25 riders in the field. A grey fox was "treed," and, according to a member of the hunt, this didn't make Mrs. Kennedy too happy...
...beautiful girl photographer. Only one thing bothers the reader. Early in the book, the author represents her virile hero as musing in these words about whether to attend a formal dinner: "Who am I to lower the tone of an haut monde evening with my simple little tweed?" Does Tito really need such help...
...brick home of President-elect John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby?'' she asked the doctor apprehensively (Jackie Kennedy had lost two babies by miscarriage before the birth of her daughter Caroline three years ago-a record...
...cycle was hit traveling south on Holyoke St. near the Indoor Athletic Building by an automobile traveling towards Boylston St. on Winthrop St. the car was driven by Tweed Roosevelt '64, who was uninjured...