Do any of our eldergays have memories of the Coty Award-winning Clovis Ruffin, seen here as the principal in a 1973 episode of TTTT & who died, at 46, in 1992?

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August 3, 2021 1:23 AM

I would've thought that the regal Kitty would've had to excuse herself from voting, not the plain jane Peggy Cass.

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August 2, 2021 12:44 PM

Kitty didn't wear 66 dollah dresses.

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August 2, 2021 12:50 PM

New York Times: April 9, 1992

Clovis Ruffin, an award-winning fashion designer, died on Tuesday at the Cabrini Hospice in Manhattan. He was 46 years old and lived in Manhattan.

He died of complications from AIDS, a family spokesman said.

Mr. Ruffin had his first major show of a collection in 1972, and the next year he became the youngest designer to win a Coty award. Early in his career, he went against the prevailing trend of pants for women by designing inexpensive, clingy, T-shirt-like dresses that became his trademark. He also designed a one-shoulder dress and terry-cloth pajamas, and bold stripes were a favorite motif in his clothing.

He helped focus the fashion industry's attention on young women who had grown up in blue jeans and were looking for youthful, carefree, affordable clothes as they began entering the work force. He was also among the first designers extensively employing black models, whose flair for the runway he praised. Costumes for Dance Company

By the mid-1970's he was designing pants and loose, flowing dresses. In the 1980's, he produced lounge wear and also slinky, taffeta evening dresses with price tags in the hundreds of dollars. In 1990, he designed costumes for the Alvin Ailey dance company and in recent years branched out to interior design.

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August 2, 2021 12:57 PM

I hope is wasn't after Labor Day with those shoes.

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August 2, 2021 1:13 PM

I wonder how he got aids?

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August 2, 2021 1:40 PM

R2, $66 in 1973, translates to a little under $400 in today’s dollars. Not being in the market for women’s dresses - not yet, at least - does that represent the price today of a low-rent dress to a classy broad like the widow woman Hart?

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August 2, 2021 1:46 PM

I thought Clovis Ruffin was Black.

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August 2, 2021 1:47 PM

Could the worldly Garry Moore be so clueless that he would think it would’ve been a “fringe benefit” for a male fashion designer of the era to get “smooshed” by smashing-looking ladies?!

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August 2, 2021 1:51 PM

R6 May a falling terra-cotta pot of heirloom geraniums strike you dead on the sidewalk.

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August 2, 2021 1:59 PM

Kitty kept her teeth white and her hair and fur black. Old School.

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August 2, 2021 2:04 PM

Ralph Charell, the principal in the 2nd game, is still alive at 92.

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August 2, 2021 2:08 PM

[quote]Kitty kept her teeth white...

By way of a vigorous scrubbing both in the morning and before bed with Bon Ami.

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August 2, 2021 10:48 PM

His “best selling” dress was $35 which is about $230 today BUT back then, all clothes were made in the US by union workers. The only reason clothes are so cheap today is that they are made in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka.

Funny, when they were introduced, I thought it was #2 just by the way he ducked his head and smiled. But he was caught off guard by a couple questions so then I thought #1 was him. Figures a PR guy would be able to bs his way through!

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August 3, 2021 1:23 AM