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...Cape Town, South Africa If Anne Ford's ushers wore green silk diplomatic ribbons, looped through a gold cross medallion, engraved "Anne Ford-1961." Such medallions are customary at debuts, and make fitting mementos...
While slipping into her summer-stock Silk Stockings at San Diego, leggy (39 in. from hipbone to toe) Juliet Prowse, 24, obliquely discussed her durable relationship with Frank Sinatra. Although allowing that he might consider her "dingaling" and perhaps had "flipped," the sinuous dancer was hardly ready to spill the banns. In the argot of the Rat Pack, explained she, "flip" means "to like someone an awful lot but not necessarily to fall in love. It's more like an urge...
...ever so much nicer than staying home with the telly," cooed a middle-aged mum with crimped grey hair to her friend in flowered silk. Under the fringed pink lights of a big London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like...
...scarlet tunics given to their grandfathers by Queen Victoria. All eyes were on Seretse as he swore to bear "true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors." His wife Ruth, whose blonde hair still fascinates the Bamangwato, was smartly turned out in a black silk suit. She had to blink back a tear...
...pushed too hard by the salesman: "Yes, I see how lovely it looks on the rack. You can just leave it there." At Alper-Schwartz she examined a pale green brocade: "That's a good mother-of-the-bride." At Ceil Chapman, she picked up a beaded taupe silk chiffon sheath (retail price: $395). At Estévez, she bought a few items that the trade describes as "church-and-drinking dresses"-they can go anywhere. "Air conditioning has changed the picture," said Opal, as she examined some woolens. "Used to be you couldn't buy a good...