Word: calf
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...stride, their minis in mothballs, their legs in hiding? Designers scoffed at alternatives, and so-called smart stores had little else in stock. But October is here and almost gone, and only the leaves are falling; skirts are just about as short as ever. All told, the mid-calf hemline seems clearly a long-lost proposition...
More Alterations. Washington, D.C., merchandisers report a steady flow of "bring-backs," generally attributable to husbands whose passions, and fountain pens, run dry at the midi. Trial selections of mid-calf fashions sold so poorly that stores in Miami, Atlanta and Portland ordered only 10% of their fall stock in the longer lengths, are getting little help from customers in reducing even that small fraction. At a Los Angeles fundraising party for Governor Reagan this month, a cool three out of 450 lady guests turned up in midis; the rest brazened it out in long gowns or pants. Even...
...still clearly legible) that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs in the kitchen...
...calf is a bum steer...
...quickly," explained Sophia Loren, "probably because I'm tall." As she arrived in Paris for a visit last week, Sophia was wearing it - a midi -in the form of a loose-fitting suit. The result was enough to give pause to the most enthusiastic advocate of the mid-calf look. If the midi makes So phia look ungainly, what must it do to women who are merely beautiful...