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Other oracles of undress view it differently. Says Choey Fong, owner of the C.M. Bazaar boutique: "Women are more comfortable with their equality with men and are willing to look feminine again. What is more womanly than bare shoulders?" Cynthia Margulies, fashion coordinator for Raleighs in Washington, senses a conflict in female emotions. Explains she: "Women don't know if they want to be daring and sexy or romantic and Victorian. These new tops bare the shoulder. But some of them come in puckered gingham. They're selling like mad and it's because women want...
Fashion Doyenne Diana Vreeland, who reigned at Harper's Bazaar and then Vogue for more than three decades and has always favored European designers, concedes that the men and women on Seventh Avenue today "have a great fastidiousness, simplicity, and everyday elegance that is wonderful and very American. For the first time, American designers' ready-to-wear clothes are a perfect turnout." The winning look is based on the almost all-encompassing range of clothes that are misleadingly labeled "sportswear." In fact, the designation covers about 80% of the clothes women wear...
...overstatement, as is the insistence by European designers that they are not influenced by their American counterparts. Incontrovertibly, the dynamics of American life and the clothes that reflect it have profoundly affected the way people dress around the world. Says Carrie Donovan, senior fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. "You really saw it last fall in the Paris ready-to-wear collections. They took wonderful stuff from the Army-Navy store, Bermuda shorts, parkas-it was the American way of dressing done with their particular style...
...younger sister, Lee Radziwill, 42, who has just launched her own New York decorating business. Among her first clients: Americana Hotels, which has asked her to redesign some hotel suites in Palm Springs, Mexico and Florida. Says Lee, a former fashion assistant at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, explaining her innovative touch: "I like to create the unexpected...
Reassured, Betty Ford is more outgoing than ever. One recent morning, she arrived at St. John's Church, where the Fords often worship, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony opening a Christmas bazaar. When a clown on hand for the occasion broke into a dance, Mrs. Ford, a former student of Martha Graham, spontaneously joined in. A few days later she taped a cameo appearance for a forthcoming Mary Tyler Moore show. The same day she helped launch a Braniff airplane painted with a Bicentennial design by Alexander Calder. At home, she brings in Liberty's puppies for guests...