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...There nearly a thousand spectators jostled fashion reporters for glimpses of the nation's best beaded, brocaded and beminked women. They gasped their approval when Jacqueline Kennedy stepped out of a limousine encased in the stunning pinks, golds and greens of a full-length Chinese brocade skirt, green velvet top and oriental stole...
...unkind years have merely honed the battle-ax wit of England's oddball poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead to her official birthday celebration at London's Festival Hall next month. There, she insists, she will appear baroquely bedecked in a red velvet gown, black-and-gold turban and massive gold necklace. She then manned the ramparts to defend her medieval eccentricities. "I think it is a mistake to dress like a mouse," she said. "Except when it comes to bravery, we are a nation of mice. We dress and behave with timid circumspection...
...large, Jackie settled into a holiday routine of reading and children-watching, with occasional water-skiing and village-strolling. Late one day she went on a shopping spree, bought a variety of silk blouses in greens and pinks, along with some velvet rope-soled shoes. She seemed just another mother when she took Caroline to an ice-cream party at the villa of an American friend, Dr. Judith Schoellkopf...
Auctioneer Louis J. Marion of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries spent two days all over the house knocking down 680 lots of gilt "French Court" furniture, red cut-velvet curtains, gilded bronzes, chinoiserie and acres of oriental rugs...
...this year), is a ten-chair, swinging bedlam, with a hi-fi dishing out a diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp hair...