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...Radcliffe Gym, you are of course late and barely miss stepping on a pair of glasses left on the floor in the corner where you usually hide. It's a Master Class, so you're of course late and your tights are ripped, you've forgotten to wear a bra, and the barrette keeping your hair off your neck absolutely won't stay closed. And since it's a Master Class, of course, it seems as though Everyone is there-all the very good dancers and the very pretty dancers and even the very smug dancers who talk about Lindsay...
...liberated" female who discards her bra as a rejection of male subjugation, and dons a midi regardless of the obvious manipulation by the fashion industry, doesn't know who is giving her support and who is putting her down...
Frederick's was the first in the country to conceive crotchless panties ("an exotic addition to your wardrobe"), the inflatable bra ("blow yourself up to your favorite size"), girdles with padded bottoms ("for unrivaled curves"), foundations without any bottoms ("the living end"), bras with holes in the middle ("a Hollywood favorite...
...vulgarity, the Frederick's phenomenon is an almost perfect target for the Women's Liberation Movement. Passion fashions are clearly male-chauvinist and designed to turn females into mere sex objects. That is part of their nostalgic appeal. In the world of Frederick's, the bra not only endures, it prevails. The allure of Rita Hayworth, circa 1945, lives...
...time Tony went out with the teacher's daughter, and the tire blew out in Pierce Lane and he had to call old Mrs. Hirsch and tell her that he was stuck out on the darkest lane in Missouri with her daughter, who just happened to have broken her bra strap at a dance-and it wasn't a lie either, she had, but he caught hell for the rest of the year." The speaker begins to laugh and stares into his beer glass for a moment. "Yeah, Tony was a really good ball-player. But he could never move...