Word: sequined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four designs shown him by the firm of Ede & Ravenscroft, Ltd., robemakers for the Kings of England since the coronation of James II in 1685. His selection: a tricorn lightweight black velour, ornamented on one side with a rosette of gold lace held in place with a small gold sequin button. Worn slightly tilted, it might have had a little style, but Sir George decreed that the hat must be worn "dead straight...
French Leave. In Hartford, Conn., arrested with a large bag of shoplifted clothing, Marie Sequin explained that she was merely collecting for the "underprivileged children of France...
...this scrabble of stories, Scenarist Irving Wallace has spelled his tale. Pianist Anthony Warrin, "a warm, perceptive and amusing . . . bachelor in his early 305" (Liberace himself, according to his pressagent, is 35), is at the height of his fame. His sequin-trimmed dinner jacket is faithfully buffed and his glass-topped piano Windexed by a pretty young secretary (Joanne Dru). She loves the man, but he would rather tickle the ivories. In San Francisco, though, the pianist has an experience (Dorothy Malone) that lifts his eyes from the scales. He hurries the young lady off to a museum, where...
Business As Usual. In Columbus, Ohio, having summoned the law to arrest a Peeping Tom, Stripteaser Geraldine ("Sequin") Garner proudly presented police with an autographed nude picture of herself, inscribed: "What the Peeping Tom was peeping...
...worn in comfort, and 2) only comfort can create sense-making style. Her clothes are functional, simple and clean of line. She likes "buttons that button and bows that tie." She is, says Dallas Retailer Stanley Marcus, "the master of the line, never the slave of the sequin. She is one of the few creative designers this country has ever produced...