Word: peached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe may be done first of all in peach. This flavor appeals most naturally to girls who have been made aware of social life and social obligations throughout their lives. Perhaps their parents are of the administrative upper class, presiding over businesses or government offices. They probably applied only to Radcliffe and one or two other schools in "The Heavenly Seven" (as they would call it). And very likely they are from New England or the mid-Atlantic seaboard...
...more than their fellow 'Cliffles, and participating gaily in drama. Others, however, participate seriously in administrative organizations such as Radcliffe and dormitory government, in service organizations (like their mothers) and in choral societies. Where rules are to be tended, this group tends them. Briggs, the strong-hold of the peach flavor, was the most vehement supporter of an orderly and extensive system of sign-outs in last year's debate...
...them the Harvard-Radcliffe experience is most significant for its social milieu. What do you like the best about this place? The most peach-flavored answer is "the people...
...messy it is with dirty hair, bitten nails, and too-long skirts. And when they are well-dressed, it is in a happily wholesome way, with pleated skirts, Loden coats, and the bulky cardigans that all of American teenagery is wearing. If they approach the tastefulness of the peach style at times (without ever really achieving it), it is perhaps because peachy dress serves as an epitome of fashion in many public high schools...
Died. Taube Coller Davis, seventyish, U.S. fashion oracle known for 35 years by her professional name of "Tobe"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Bubbly but ever so shrewd, Tobe gave advice through her syndicated columns in some 50 papers, her newsletters (printed on blue paper with breezy peach covers), her $1,000-a-day consultations, and her 150-girl Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers. Her Manhattan town house was a rendezvous for mannequins and matrons, and her influence was such that in 1953 the French government made her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...