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...women in daytime will regress to the nursery, at nighttime emerge as denizens of a seraglio. Thigh-high beach dresses were decorated with traffic signs, arid hiking costumes were just right for a tramp. Cocktail dresses were turned out looking like high-rise first Communion dresses. Patrick de Barentzen used so many bows in the hair to complement his school smocks and jumpers that fashion viewers thought they were watching the children's wear showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: La Dolce Vista | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Rome was something else again, and the "else" in translation read "glamour." From Forquet's flowing saris to De Barentzen's dirndl-skirted rain dress to Lancetti's denim and organdy evening gown, elegance was clearly the theme of the day. And of the night, too. thanks to Top Designer Princess Irene Galitzine, whose patio pajamas (patterned in mauve and pea-green poppies) and open-front, open-back nightgowns (layer-wrapped to conceal seams) stopped the show in Rome, but will only start it somewhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Alto Moc/o, Italian Style | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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