Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Left-Footed Erratics. The winds from Capitol Hill were far from kindly. Of the Senate's 36 Republicans, at least ten, possibly 16, can be classified as doves. In the House, 52 Representatives urged a full-dress inquiry to determine "whether congressional action is desirable in respect to policies in Southeast Asia"; a year ago, no more than four or five were willing to speak out against the President's policies...
...French fashion magazine Elle, has just gone into operation at the Paris department store Au Printemps. A second will be used later this month on the liner La France for trans-atlantic haute couture showings-if a passenger's measurements are already on record in Paris, the dress she selects will be ready when she gets there. Price of the mirror and accompanying projection system...
...woman rests content, once a dress catches her eye, until she has actually tried it on and examined it from every angle. Some women even insist on trying on outrageously wrong clothes just for the hang of it. As a result, lines queue up before dressing booths, coiffures become disarranged, clothes quickly become shopworn...
...called Le Miroir Magique. The shopper is first draped in black up to her neck, then perched in a chair on a platform facing a special non-silvered mirror designed for rear-projection. By pushing a button, she can then flash slides of a store's collection, each dress in her own size, onto the mirror beneath the reflection of her face, discovering in seconds whether or not the particular color, neckline and shape suits her. A decisive woman could "try on" as many as 150 dresses in 15 minutes before the mirror, reducing subsequent actual tryons...
...mood is also sweeping U.S. Negro colleges, where coeds increasingly show up for class in African-style dress. Administrators at these schools-most of which are in the South-are increasingly under student fire for appearing to cooperate with local white leaders. "Even among the apathetic students, there's a feeling that they are not going to find solutions with white people any more," says George McMillan, a white journalism teacher at Clark College. "There is more sense of blackness," agrees Spelman College Senior Eulalia Harris, a Negro, "and more desire to make the black community stronger rather than...