Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designs are soft-top versions of the heavily boned "Maginot Line" prom gowns of the '40s and '50s. Recalls Pat Johnson of Washington's Garfinckel's: "It used to be with the old strapless things that you moved one way and the dress the other." Today's no-straps are made of soft, clingy fabrics such as matte jersey and chiffon. Strapless bras are rarely worn. Says Martha Ferris of Chicago's Bonwit Teller: "It's bareness without blatancy...
...pull. Says Marilyn Black, a public relations expert in Los Angeles: "Guys call me Carmen Miranda and snap their fingers over their heads when I walk down the street. Bare shoulders must be sexy." Tina Comparato, a Washington saleswoman, confirms that "you get more looks in a strapless dress than in a very short...
...cabinet of plates a more conventional photograph is propped. A chain of ladies in turn-of-the-century dress hold hands in front of an Observatory that no longer exists. At the end of the chain stands Edward C. Pickering, appointed Director of the Observatory in 1877. Pickering concentrated on photometry, using the Great Refractor to take thousands of pictures, which the ladies he leads in the picture classified...
...year-old Gaposhkin is irrepressible. In the midst of conversation he stretches his arms up to the ceiling and implores God, "Why did You give me this incredible desire?" He is a bit of a dandy too; his yellow and brown patent leather shoes dictate the tone of his dress...
...around for a while and then began to dress very slowly. I put vaseline just everywhere and then got into my racing outfit (blue shorts, yellow tank top, white golf hat). I felt dehydrated even before the race began, so I hosed down my hat and my head. My heel began to hurt as I walked towards the starting line and I was really scared I'd get a blister about two miles into the race...