Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspenders, No Straps. Thus it was naturally Italy's Emilio Pucci, lightweight sportswear champion of the world, who predicted that it would not be long before bikini wearers, dissatisfied with halfway measures and interrupted suntans, would drop their modest pretensions along with the tops of their suits. And though the U.S.'s Rudi Gernreich was the first to snatch the idea off the rack and get it on the market (TIME, June 26), the evidence presented at the fall fashion collections in Florence last week showed that the Italians were not prepared...
...staid old Pitti Palace, where Florence's fashionmakers stage their shows, bosoms were bared in a multitude of styles and shapes. Some designs were legitimate, some looked more like gags: Micia tore holes that left a knitted overblouse looking like supersized Swiss cheese, showed a G-string bikini beneath to any mouse man enough to peep. Glans left only two prim pockets on an otherwise totally transparent shirt. Veneziani attached five-inch-wide suspenders to the waist of a party skirt and called it an evening gown; Princess Irene Galitzine cut a V that kept going, fore...
...last foreign aid bill-appropriating only $3 billion out of an Administration request for $4.5 billion -Lyndon Johnson decided to try a different approach. He sent up a "preshrunk" program of $3.4 billion, the lowest asking price in foreign aid's history. His aides compared it to a bikini -skimpy, but just enough to cover the vital areas...
Carefully the honeymoon couple peeked out. Nope, nobody around. Out came chairs, mats and other sunbathing essentials. A photographer poised across the street from the hotel near Naples briefly eyed Spain's Prince Hugo Carlos. But when Dutch Princess Irene, 24, came out, he clicked away, for her bikini was as brief as her form was royal...
Skirts & Sheaths. Merrie's mother was once a fashion model, and her father is an ophthalmologist. The family lives in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia's social ionosphere. "I don't need to prove I'm sophisticated by wearing a bikini," says Merrie, "if it's in bad taste...