Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawn to certain types of shots. Unfortunately, from the look of Woodstock, everyone was drawn to the same simple events. No one bothered to film the stuff that one needs to edit a good sequence. For instance, to return to the Who, Roger Daltry wore his shimmering white fringe vest, a natural attraction to a cameraman; so everybody must have filmed him in close-up, because they liked the way the light played on that vest and his blonde hair...
...Juan workshop, Designer Gonzalo Chavez, 36, a native New Yorker who calls himself Mr. Terp, has been painstakingly assembling pop-top rings into glittering dresses, vests, stoles, belts, miniskirts and maxiskirts-all resembling the mailed armor worn by warriors of the Middle Ages to ward off sword blows. Collecting the rings from rubbish heaps behind San Juan bars, Chavez files down their rough edges' and crochets them together with silver thread. It is a slow process. When he began making the pop-tops last spring, it took Chavez a day to complete a 600-ring vest 20 inches long...
Considering Chavez's labors, the price of pop-tops is remarkably low. A 600-ring vest costs $60, a 1,000-ring stole goes for $100 and a 2,800-ring maxicoat sells for $350. The most recent creation, a picture hat with a raffia band, can be adjusted into shapes that range from a cowboy stetson to a Garbo cloche, and costs $50. At those prices, the pop-tops have become the sensation among Puerto Rico's livelier...
Although Chavez does not recommend it, some of his customers have risked pinches or scratches by wearing pop-tops over their bare skin. "The first topless chick to try a vest," he says, "caught her right nipple in a ring. I think it looked groovy, but I can recognize the snags...
When Robert Kennedy was killed, Unruh says, "I nearly went crazy." Later he found that R.F.K.'s death taught him "a sense of high-risk politics." Says Unruh: "I was always a very cautious, close-to-the-vest politician. Now politics has stopped being a game with me. So much of my early trouble came because I simply didn't give a damn. When I started out, it was with the idea of changing things with idealism. Then how quickly the system picked me up and got me involved, and how long it took me to realize that...