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...wife padded about their 20-year vacation retreat: an antique pub in rural Devonshire. Paying $29.40 a week room and board, the Primate of All England now and again abandoned his customary gaiters to tromp the neighboring moors, in a vacation ensemble of cloth cap, tweed sports jacket and flannel bags. As for the inner man. the Archbishop appeared to find the pub's cuisine quite as appealing as that of Lambeth Palace. "It's good plain stuff," he purred, "and I like a drop of cider with it. The cider rounds off the meal...
...Fabrics range from ordinary reversible wools, suede and leather to delicately worked jerseys, crepe, chiffon and much velvet. The favorite by far is fur-Maggy Rouff shows an all-beaver skirt, Patou an all-nutria dress, and Balmain (a sort of latter-day Gregor Mendel) crosses persian lamb with tweed for a hybrid stadium plaid...
...give Nast credit for deflating the "image" of Boss Tweed without giving equal credit to Herblock for deflating the "image" of the late sawdust Caesar from Wisconsin, you make a great error of omission...
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...
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...