Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singers off in a frenzy of denial, confession and recrimination: I Don't Talk Too Much, I Talk Too Much, Who Talks Too Much? The craze has even provided an answer to what happened to the girl who lost the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Her name, according to 14-year-old Songstress Jeri Lynne Eraser, was Begonia, and out there in the water Poor Begonia Caught Pneumonia...
That she wore for the first time today-An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polkadot bikini...
Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini...
...fate of the bikini in the U.S. hung by one string. Despite a major sales campaign, Manhattan stores reported that customers were buying bikinis only for wear in semi-seclusion-penthouse terraces, backyards-but that men were trying to persuade their wives or girl friends to try bikinis in a wider variety of landscapes. Nonetheless, models and Europeans continued to be the stores' best sort of bikini customers. The forbidding breath of Salem could still be felt on most American beaches...
...coats, colorful wool knits and fur-trimmed garments. Dresses are being made with jackets for double duty, the jacket removable for evening. Corset and other foundation-garment makers have cut the number of styles by a third, yet have managed to bring out a new assortment suitable even for bikini wearers. In June bridal gowns, the train that so often required the help of small brothers has been replaced by a nononsense, efficiency ballerina skirt. Plugging a new trend, a fresh series of dresses will be labeled "junior petite," aimed at the teenager...