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Italian sportswear, always ingenious, this year includes trimmings ranging from boa-like looped-wool fringe on suits (by Pierluigi Trico) and enormous pompons on after-ski capes (by Lily Liuba) to colored felt "scoubidou"-like tassels* on ski sweaters (by Lida di Trepuzzi). Centinaro, who calls her line "Penguin" (the pouch-backed shape), shows shiny black spaghetti-fringe collars and olive-green fur linings. Albertina's boutique features knit suits and coats made without cutting or seaming and guaranteed to be sagproof, and Roland-who must have seen The Wild One-spotlights a skintight, all-black leather ensemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Romantic Fall | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...scoubidou is an obsessively popular French children's game involving the braiding of plastic strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Romantic Fall | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

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