Clanship in Clothes

Aspen, of course, was only for the spillover Kennedys. The real nucleus of the group spent the holidays in Palm Beach, celebrating more than the simple capture of another Senate seat. The New York Couture Group, in final capitulation to the Kennedy way, last week for the second consecutive year listed six clansmen--two by birth, four by friendship--among its top twelve Best-Dressed Women of 1962.

Following right along behind No. 1 Jackie and her sister, the Princess, were Close Friends Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (husband: oil millionaire), Mrs. Loel Guinness (husband: international financier), Mrs. Gianni Agnelli (husband: Fiat auto heir), and Mrs. Herve Alphand (husband: France's Ambassador to the U.S.). All of the six were present at a New Year's Eve party given by Mrs. Wrightsman in her 40-room Palm Beach winter place. The ladies, who among them spend about a quarter of a million dollars a year getting dressed, looked it.

It was all very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many hours of her Italian holiday last August.

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