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...Uglies yet?" ask the ads for Los Angeles' Jay Jordan Shoe Stores. Jordan's does, including a high wedgie sandal with heavy straps, all in snakeskin, that prompted one potential buyer to say "I'd rather wear the boxes they came in." The bestseller at Bonwit Teller in Boston is a broad-banded, thick-soled platform sandal. The hottest number at Chicago's Thayer McNeil is a dark-stained wooden shoe that turns up at toe and heel and stays on because of leather straps nailed hard and fast over the instep...
...other store has a greater stake in making the controversial midi lengths acceptable than Manhattan's elegant Bonwit Teller. Early this month President William Fine reported that the store's fall fashions will be 95% midi-a figure considerably higher than that of most competitors, who are still hedging their fashion bets. Now Bonwit's has moved to prevent its employees from undermining its bold gamble. After Aug. 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi...
...sexual tastes in her suburban apartment near Chestnut Hill. She is well-paid for her services, and lives accordingly. She wines, dines, and occasionally travels with her customers throughout the country. She'll drink only Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry or imported Mumm's champagne, wears expensive clothes from Bonwit's and Best and Co. where she maintains charge accounts, and from Truc-a place that fascinates her. She drives a new Cougar convertible, visits the Jazz Workshop when it features top musicians, reads a lot- "Harold Robbins novels, nothing very heavy" -and spends most of her free time playing...
...Boston's Planned Parenthood office is located on the corner of Berkeley and Boylston Streets, right across from Bonwit Teller. I parked where the sign said "Customer Parking Only" and walked across the street. The elevator operator stopped at the fourth floor without my asking him to. He was used to the traffic...
...Planned Parenthood is a middle-class organization; the idea that someone will do an abortion for you legally is a middle-class idea." A visit to the PP office confirms this comment. The PP building stands isolated in a middle to upper class world. Across the street is Bonwit-Teller, adjacent is Brooks Brothers, in the neighborhood are Lord and Taylor, Peck and Peck and other unlikely hang-outs for those women who would be trapped by the abortion laws...