My hostess is the official harbinger of holiday cheer, takes her job seriously.
Orchestrates every perfectly-popped cork, each precisely-dolloped caviar blini, every stargazer lily in the cascading rivers of pink poinsettias. And best of all is her personal light show.
Overhead spots capture the glimmering gold in her silk blouse, the deep garnet of her velvet pants, bouncing the colors off frosty windowpanes and chandelier crystals and raised champagne flutes...she looks like she’s been gift-wrapped by Printemps of Paris.
Next, she’ll predict an end to the Cuban cigar embargo and the return of French blue to the Hamptons for summer.
Light-Show Blouse (No. 4029). A holiday indulgence of sybaritic silk satin with slimming, contrasting stripes. Self-fabric ties to flatter the waist, wrap-front for allure, wide French cuffs to turn down for drama. Can you fit in lunch at 21 Club on Christmas Eve?
Women’s sizes: 4 through 16.
Color: Cranberry and Gold-edged Garnet stripes.
Light-Show Velvet Pants (No. 4030), in lustrous, plush rayon/silk. For celebrating Boxing Day, Fête des Rois, and all other holidays between Nov. 1 and Mar. 15, especially (but not exclusively) with a Light-Show Blouse.
Elegant, wide straight leg. Easy stretch back waistband. Side button of iridescent Japanese abalone.
Women’s sizes: 4 through 16.
Color: Rich Garnet.
