Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady of style has gobs of money, she can still find all the exclusive, just-for-you creations her heart desires in Paris' high-fashion houses. But the designers these days trend more to mass-market ready-to-wears, known as prét à porter-and to more pants, more boots, more chains, more turtlenecks and, of course, more transparency. For his fall collection, André Courrèges' main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark...
...method shows promise as the most natural way to reduce while on a moderately low-calorie diet. One problem, in proving its value, is going to be getting enough FMS. Another is that effectiveness may wear off after repeated doses; so how long treatment can be maintained is still in doubt...
Lunching Uptown. In most matters of dress, few companies are more conservative than those in finance and insurance. At Chicago's Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That...
People working for communications and science-oriented companies, by contrast, usually dress with more of a flourish, especially if they hold down creative jobs. Like other women at Manhattan's freewheeling Jack Tinker ad agency, Commercial Producer Magi Durham likes to wear bell-bottomed trousers and men's sport shirts to the office. Her bearded husband Guy, associate creative director of Daniel & Charles ad agency, sometimes goes to work in blue jeans, other times in Edwardian suits and wide, polka-dot ties. Says Magi admiringly: "He swings on two lengths of the pendulum...
...aluminum-and-glass building in Universal City has more than its share of kookily attired production and clerical workers. Still, as one aide puts it, President Lew R. Wasserman is determined to "make the company look like a solid business operation." To that end, MCA's executives wear nothing but coal-black business suits...