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...sure when John Burr Fairchild [Sept. 14] is a bitter old man, he will regret 1970, when he did his best to turn all of us who are young at heart into bitter old women with his midis. When women's knees were free, their spirit was free. They became younger, more energetic, happier. The midi makes them old, dowdy and grumpy...
...Fairchild is shrewdly aware that many women are insecure enough to put garbage bags on their backs if fashion decreed...
...never heard of Mr. Fairchild before, but I can assure you he is right for Europe if not for the States, and the midi fashion will be a success. The American women perhaps are not self-confident enough to buy midi clothes...
...mean to tell me that in 1970, the year of a resurgent Women's Liberation movement, a man, John Fairchild, can actually decree that women will wear frumpy clothes in 1971? At least the Longuette is egalitarian; all women, not just the ones with bad legs, look funny...
...have just finished reading your cover story on John Fairchild, and would like to say that I think your reporters did a superlative job in describing the correct mixture of fear and respect that most of us within the industry have for Fairchild Press...