Word: waistcoats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tailors fitted a turn-of-the-century cape, frock coat and waistcoat for his 5,000-tulip wedding on the Johnny Carson show, Tiny Tim announced that his honeymoon would begin with "a three-day fast from S-E-X." Said Tiny: "Not even a kiss. I plan to give the Lord the first fruits of my marriage. If only more people followed the ways of St. Paul and King David." No comment from Mrs. Tim-to-be, Vicki Budinger, 17. There was even a rumor that Tim's tresses would be shorn for the event. "I hope they...
...pretext of a dress will do-but only on a girl with a figure worth seeing through to and with nerve enough to let the world see through to it. If she has the right shape and attitude, she can get away with anything from a bra and gypsy waistcoat to a blouse woven wholly out of cobwebs. Guardians of morality may frown in disfavor, girl friends may shriek in outrage and envy and husbands may either approve (when the woman is somebody else's) or glare silently (if she is his own). Still, more and more women...
...Club (TIME, Oct. 15) into a lot-size (42 ft. by 100 ft.) public park as a memorial to his father, Cigar Czar Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs and a kiosk for sandwiches and soft drinks. Mirrors on the side walls will add a feeling of depth, and a sheet of water...
...Walks in Splendor" is an exhibit of luxurious costumes created by famous couturiers over the last five centuries. The collection starts in the 1500's with Queen Elizabeth's waistcoat, then skips to an excellent eighteenth century array...
...complete cutaway costume also includes black and gray pin-striped trousers, a gray waistcoat, and black leather shoes. Once upon a time a beaver hat--consisting of an opera hat crowned by beaver fur--was worn with the cutaway. But now the beaver hat is rarely seen...