Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunn--gaily clad in a green plaid kilt, green tweed jacket, green knee socks, and black bonnet--then yielded to the 15-member Stuart Highland Pipe Band of Bedford, which piped old favorites like "Scotland the Brave" and "We're No Away to Bide Away" to complete the ceremony...
Dulled Senses. Such is the mood for nude that Rudi Gernreich, whose chiffon see-through blouse was greeted by cries of outrage in 1964, is confidently planning to try it again this fall, attaching it to tweed skirts. "This time," predicts Gernreich, "it will be received without shock. The bare-bosom look certainly isn't totally accepted yet, but in another five years it will...
History has already dimmed the never sharply defined figure of Harold Macmillan. He had the misfortune to become Prime Minister in time to help preside, in Churchill's phrase, "over the liquidation of the British Empire." Often photographed in hairy tweed knickerbockers while shooting in the Scotch Highlands, Macmillan projected an image of woebegone Toryism anachronistic in the postwar scene of swinging Britain. That this image was misleading could be seen from the first volume of his memoirs (TIME, Sept. 30, 1966) in which he emerged as a humorous and generous-minded man, sharply aware of the currents...
...Morris have much luck with his offspring. His favorite daughter was beautiful but epileptic. The other daughter nearly married George Bernard Shaw but briefly married another seedy socialist comrade of Morris, grew a mustache and took up with an androgynous lady who wore tweed knickerbockers. In later life she took to impersonating the catatonic lady of Shalott and became both custodian of and exhibit at the Morris shrine at Kelmscott Manor...
...high-fashion designers and shops want to climb aboard. Cardin has proclaimed: "Brown has class; it lends an air of distinction." Yves St. Laurent's bestsellers have turned out to be a brown tweed suit with cape and brown velvet evening ensembles. "Brown is such a beautiful color for winter," says French Vogue Editor Francoise de Langlade de La Renta. "So warm, so wonderful against a tanned skin." In Rome, after her trip to Cambodia and Thailand, Jacqueline Kennedy promptly placed an order with her favorite Italian designer, Valentino. Her choice: a wool crepe Mao shirt and matching skirt...