Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communist hotbed and yes, I have "marched with all those hippies," and yes, I dress the way all of "them" dress and no, coed dorms are not "disgusting." I live in one for God's sake...
...Cambridge, Mass., Bobbi Baker ran a high-fashion dress shop near the Harvard University campus for six years but sold the building this year and moved to a quiet suburb. "One year we were trashed three times," she recalls bitterly. "In the first trashing, they piled up a lot of merchandise inside the store and set fire to it. Women's Lib picketed us and sprayed our windows with slogans. We got tired of being threatened with knives and being bullied...
...dumb blouses" (as one graduate put it), now feature smarter getups, from pantsuits to prom gowns. One Park Forest, Ill., teenager, Tova Kletnick, 16, has become so expert with her own creations that she now designs and makes clothes for her friends, charging them a modest $10 per dress from first fitting to finish...
...Home sewing used to be the dumping ground for the fabric industry," says Carol Bird, president of Off the Bolt, a chain of fabric shops in Los Angeles. "Now all that has changed. If a woman sees a dress she likes in a store, she can come into a fabric shop, ask for the identical fabric and get it." Five years ago, there were 2,300 fabric stores in the U.S.; today there are 12,000. Most popular sellers have been double knits, which are strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making...
Where Bing had been conservative, Gentele was disposed to be open and experimental. He hoped to Americanize the Met by hiring U.S. singers whenever possible; he wanted to encourage casual dress and to draw a younger audience. "Young people should come to the opera as they go to hear a pop band," he said. "Opera is a folk art, like bullfighting and prizefighting." His future repertory, he hinted, would vary standard fare with such works as Berlioz's Les Troyens, Janáček's Katya Kabanova and Rossini's frothy L'ltaliana in Algeri...