Word: waterproofs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many artists call it, is made from acrylic and vinyl resins consisting of emulsion polymers, long strands of molecules floating in water. Wound into these strands, like prickles on barbed wire, are standard pigments. When the water evaporates, polymers and pigments bind into a film that is actually waterproof and can be scrubbed with soap and water...
...dots and patterns. This year's favorite is flowers: from A for aster to Z for zinnia, they make a coat a serenade to spring; its wearer becomes a veritable walking garden. All make superb between-season coats, but then there is this little problem: not one is waterproof...
Down the Neck. As for hats, the situation is no better. Scarves are perky as can be, but as waterproof as sponges. Hoods, helmets, bonnets and the currently chic sou'wester hats are serviceable, but leave the hair underneath a disaster area. Alternative? The nowstandard plastic rain hood, which folds away to nothing and can be carted around in the smallest purse...
Capes still enchant most Cambridgiennes, and fortunately an attractive variety has appeared on the market in recent months. ADELE BRAGAR has a narrow, waterproof cape with detachable epaulettes and big brass buttons in khaki poplin ($20) and in lovely blue corduroy. ($24). Most stores carry several good styles, but GERTRUDE SINGER'S cape collection remains unsurpassed in Cambridge. In Boston, FILENE'S is showing some striking models in pastel wools with shoulder button closings...
...argue with them," said TV's top impresario. "They ran the show." The fee? "No money," said the Mother Prioress, "but we have a mission in the Congo. Would it be possible to send a heavy-duty Jeep with rain curtains?" Ed is out shopping for the most waterproof Willys he can find...