Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commoner sees it, the deterioration of the environment is caused largely by the kinds of goods now being produced. Since 1946, synthetic fibers have displaced cotton and wool; aluminum, plastic and concrete have captured markets once held by lumber and steel; nitrogen fertilizers have replaced natural manure...
...expression. The earnest spontaneity and unorthodoxy of spirit are gratifying. Catching the student in the act of becoming an artist is. however, a depressing experience. The show has an admirable scope: it includes photography, handicrafts as well as oils and graphics. Adventurous use is made of diverse materials like wool, metal. wood, and plastic. But, in spite of the exhibit's range and diversity, it contains few stirring and competently executed works of art. You have to wonder if the fine artists were rejected, or if they even exist...
...Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes have been cloaked up for years, boutiques are having trouble keeping capes in stock. A favorite is St. Laurent's Moroccan wool version, already snapped up by Jennifer Jones. The farther-out Reva's Fashions boutique, where Joanne Woodward picked up her reversible Guinevere cloak, has a bestseller in matte jersey, its turban hood framed in ostrich or turkey feathers. Reva's also stocks a show-stopping full-length Levi...
...started with several hats and "one dress, but a tasteful dress." added sweaters, and within five years had made Maison Chanel a fashion house to reckon with. Coco introduced the tricot sailor frock and the pullover sweater, unearthed wool jersey from its longtime service as underwear fabric and put it to use in soft, clinging dresses. She ushered in gypsy skirts, embroidered silk blouses and accompanying shawls. Even then, Chanel clothes were as high-priced as any Paris couturier's; but only Chanel delighted in having her styles copied -and made accessible at low cost to millions...
...Mademoiselle Chanel has reigned over fashion," mused Jean Cocteau some time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...