Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of George's clothes consciousness appears to have rubbed off on Lynda (who has also dropped a few pounds). She showed up for a cocktail party in a black, swoop-backed dress with an enormous, eye-arresting bow at the waist. The better to blend with her new California friends, she received from her parents, among other birthday gifts, a huge pair of sporty sunglasses with checkerboard rims. Actually, around George Hamilton, whose thespian career has blossomed like a Texas rose since he began squiring Lynda, the starry-eyed President's daughter blended well enough...
...mortgage and are torn down almost as fast. Cars, houses, jobs and spouses are changed with an ease and rapidity that shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through LSD. The U.S. is running an economic fever trying to end poverty and pollution, put a man on the moon and end the war in Viet Nam all at once...
...sack. The sheath. The tunic. The tent dress. Each new look required a closetful of new clothes. But never has the housecleaning been as thorough. Now it appears, the very underworld of women's fashions has been unmasked, the standard lingerie wardrobe has been suddenly rendered obsolete...
...there is the question of how to keep underthings out of sight. Plunging armholes, cut-outs and open midriffs bare whatever necklines don't reveal. Yesterday's brassieres were sturdy supports; today they have become slim bands in the wispiest of fabrics, with halter straps for bareback dresses, and low sides for bib tops. Since the bare spots change from dress to dress, the bras are flexible, come with convertible straps that crisscross every which way for one-shoulder, no-shoulder, U, V or X decolletes. Panties have shrunk to bikini briefs; petticoats begin...
...downright embarrassing. Girdle manufacturers, however, are rising to the crisis with all kinds of artful camouflage. Some are disguising the unseemly with ruffles; others propose nylon bloomers and all-in-one outfits with built-in bra and legs like Jamaica shorts. If all this seems too much, the well-dressed woman can simply take her stand against the rising hemline and resist. But she may soon find herself in a dwindling minority. Dress Designer Mainbocher speaks comfortingly of "client length," but he admits that his skirts are a full inch shorter than last year, now just shadow the knee...