Word: chiffons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, Costumer Calista Hendrickson worked on a purple chiffon dress for Miss Piggy to use in one of the fall shows in which she dances cheek-to-cheek with Danny Kaye. She began to talk about what puppets mean to people, and that reminded her of the first time the Muppet crew met Edgar Bergen, who was the guest star on one of their early shows. "When he walked into our studio in London, they all gathered around him like children. And then the box was brought in, Charlie's box, and they all sank to the floor...
...hour before the ceremony begins, the debutante dressing room is steeped in chiffon clouds. Nineteen girls are sliding into slips, blowdrying hair, jostling each other with kid-gloved elbows. Some have brought maids who, in rushing to help their mistresses, nearly bowl the other girls over. The gowns sparkle and rustle and gleam, all as white as the driven snow. One girl is sporting a copy of her mother's wedding dress, another the family pearls. The third wears Grandma's lace-trimmed gloves and no bra.2
...When's this bus gonna roll?" she hissed from the back of the Greyhound, shifting around on the seat in a white chiffon gown. "Gawwd-damm!" she cussed, "when's this driver gonna get us to Winterhaven...
...stylist decrees a red chiffon evening dress, and Tiegs, with as much modesty as she can manage in a room full of people, slips it on. Wearing ballet slippers and carrying a pair of elegant red sandals, she pads across to where she will be photographed against a white paper drop. She grins at an onlooker. She can look a 6-ft. 2-in. man in the eye. The red flower in her hair looks like a pennant at the masthead of a racing sloop. Ellen Merlo has said that the one overriding reason for Tiegs' appeal is that...
...purchases ($8,000), he dashed out to do more shopping. He returned shortly with new luggage to hold his purchases, then dashed off to catch a plane. At Lina Lee, an Iranian woman spent less than five minutes?and more than $ 1,900 ?buying three silk and chiffon daytime dresses. Asked if she wanted to try them on, she replied, "No, no, I love them. I just know I want them...