Word: bouffant
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...open year-round, Victorian-style swim suits have yielded to two-piece costumes for girls. "Janes," as Moscow University jets call their girls (after the heroine in antediluvian Tarzan movies that reached Russia after World War II), are discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell...
Dress varies from the chaste pastel uniforms at Indiana's Saint Mary's College (oldest U.S. Catholic women's campus) to the skin-tight skirts, bouffant hairdos and rainbow eye shadow at the University of Miami. When the sun shines at the University of Texas, every female foot seems to be in black loafers. When it rains, out come clean white sneakers. At Northwestern, the uniform is dirty white sneakers and full skirts above the knee; at Reed, some girls go barefoot. Skirts are so short at U.C.L.A. that a nervous professor recently announced: "Move back...
...hair on the longish side, but cautions women against too much hair-fullness. "Women." he says, "should look like little European boys. Their hair should be short and cropped. Any woman who will not wear her hair that way is basically very insecure. And Kenneth, with his big poufy bouffant jobs, is just too jazzy for me". Mrs. Kennedy, believe me, could look a lot better...
...coiffeur. The man of the hour at the solemn presentation ceremonies in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mr. Kenneth (surname back home in Syracuse, N.Y.: Battelle), who was already famed as clippers and comb expert for Marilyn Monroe, Tina Onassis and Judy Garland, but who achieved the bouffant ("I like to call it uncontrived fullness") summit with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
...night now with the assurance that we will be safe and secure, as our "former" enemies, now conquered, would surely never attack a land with such a charmante beauty at its helm. Bouffant hairdos! Pillbox hats! Bah! 'Tis a sad state of affairs indeed...