Marisa Berenson wore translucent chiffon, Lee Radziwill wore pleated red silk, and Naomi Sims wore a white dress with tightly wrapped top. But even their clothes were no match for some of the costumes in "American Women in Style," the new show that opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute last week. The main attractions of the exhibit, organized by Diana Vreeland, were the eloquently unfettered wardrobes of two great dancers. Isadora Duncan, a free-spirited sensation of La Belle Epoque, considered herself built along the lines of the Venus de Milo...
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