Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilde rebutted the industrial revolution with flowing locks and velvet suits; he warded off its fumes with a long-stemmed flower. The modern dandy, on the other hand, revels detachedly and deliciously in the vulgarity of mass culture. And the word is not dandyism any more. According to one of Manhattan's brightest young intellectuals, Novelist Susan Sontag, the word is "Camp...
Actually, much of the Chelsea look is a revival of oldtime fashion ideas from older, more fashionable times. Nostalgia is the order of the day. Edwardian sleeves and bertha collars, ribbons, roses and trailing black velvet are the tricks of the trade. It is their high comic sense, however, that affords the Chelsea group the authority to unearth shades of the past, drop a street-dress hemline down to the ankles, cut a cocktail suit from a Victorian lace tablecloth...
...incongruous TV lights, Britain's nobly dressed bishops, judges, peers and politicians jammed the House of Lords last week as Queen Elizabeth arrived in a glass coach and took her seat on a gilded throne. Up strode a graceful man in a wig, damask robe and black velvet breeches. Kneeling, he handed the monarch her speech. Kneeling, he took it back after Elizabeth had read it - thus opening Parliament with a rit ual that has scarcely changed at all since the first Elizabeth performed it 400 years...
...says Dr. Charles Walton, research vice president. "He didn't find the one he set out to find, but he did find a pretty good one." At 3M, researchers have gone from ordinary tape to reflecting tape to reflecting "paint"-and from that to a new liquid called Velvet Coating, which absorbs light and is useful for glare-proofing signs. One tinkering scientist...
Goldwater is not, in fact, a fascist. He only presents a blunter, rougher version of what Johnson has been saying all along. Big Business knows, however, that Johnson's velvet glove has been more effective than Goldwater's iron hand in suppressing popular struggles. This is why businessmen are this year flocking in unprecedented numbers to the Democratic Party...