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...started when Designers Eileen Pittler, 24, and George Brewer, 27, invented a "sticky fingers" peace sign for a Pittsburgh radio station. It was made of vinyl and could be stuck on everything from car windows to people. Then, Eileen Pittler remembers, "I woke up one morning to find my Paul Newman poster had fallen down for the hundredth time." Together, Eileen and George designed a flat vinyl-like, baroque frame that sticks to a wall, can be adjusted to fit pictures of various sizes. From there, the designers went on to produce other kinds of stick-on mock furniture...
...started, recalls Designer Charles Prior Hall, with an "incredibly horrible thing" in his apartment. "I built a chair that was 300 lbs. of liquid starch encased in a vinyl skin. You would sit in this thing and it would creep up around you." The Incredible Creeping Chair, as Hall called it, failed to make the impact that he hoped for. But his efforts to improve it led him to a much splashier creation, which is now making an appearance-and creating a sensation -in department stores across the nation. It is the water bed, the bounciest bedroom invention since...
Essentially, the water bed is a vinyl bag filled with water and fitted out with a temperature-control device. Set in a sturdy plastic frame, and covered with ordinary sheets and perhaps a light blanket, it may well be an aid for insomniac mankind in its long battle with Morpheus...
Courrèges concentrated on pointed hoods and capes in crinkly vinyl for day, satin-lined velvet for night, cutout minitunics over pants and slinky skirts, and a gaggle of see-through blouses. Givenchy shaped his long dresses with meticulous pin-tucked pleats, and emphatically ratified the romantic look with a black velvet pantsuit rounded at the hips and ruffled in black taffeta...
...tykes shoud groove on a set of rope swings whose poma-lift type seats look like giant hot pink and dark purple onions. Should they fall, they won't have to hit hard macadam-Project '70 shows four-foot wide flooring dises of foam covered with black vinyl...