Word: collet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light up with Charles and Diana lighters and extinguish butts in C & D ash trays. Tea drinkers can sip from a C & D mug, pour cream from a C & D jug, add sugar with a keepsake teaspoon. Di fans can purchase a copy of her famous décolleté dress for $150-one-tenth the price of the original-and store it on a Lady Di hanger. For fun, there is a crossword puzzle with answers that form a princely head. For salvation, there is a Bible, bound in silver imitation leather, and featuring, yes, those innocent, royal faces...
Gala designer jumpsuits, selling for up to $1,000, bear as little relationship to Rosie's garb as the QE2 to a Liberty ship. They come strapless or backless or off-the-shoulder; camisoled, ruffled and high-necked, or deeply décolleté. At stores like I. Magnin's in San Francisco and Chicago and Bloomingdale's in New York, which has eight departments (including one named In Flight) selling jumpsuitery, they come in soft, billowy silks and satins, polished cotton and gabardine, velvet and crepe de Chine in art deco prints. Head-turning hues include...