Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers hypocrisy, respectability, caste and class snobbery and native Blimpcompoops. Two insuperable zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of a finals match at Wimbledon...
After a round of receptions, parties and dinners, the tour jetted to Bucharest, where a curious crowd gathered to see the first 727 that had ever landed at Baneasa Airport. In mysterious Rumanian fashion, the government would not reveal its plans for the visit until after the plane had touched down. The Rumanians were not unfriendly-they provided a police escort from the airport, and later rolled out a yellow VIP carpet for the reception with First Deputy Premier Alexandru Birladeanu...
What she possesses is a fall, a gorgeous mane of human hair that pins to the top of the head to produce an extravagant but natural-looking cascade of tresses. From the Potomac to the Pacific, the fall is the runaway hair fashion of the season...
Inexpensive versions in Dynel are available for as little as $10. But for the genuine article, made of European hair in lengths of 16 in. to three feet, Michel Kazan, whose falls for the Galanos showing last January launched the fashion, charges anywhere from $150 to $600. Manhattan's Kenneth charges just as much, sells 100 of them per week; at Lilly Dache, real hair falls outsell wigs 25 to 1; and they account for 75% of all the hair goods sold in Joseph Magnin's 28 West Coast stores...
Some now defend the fashion on esthetic grounds. "You have this break between your pants and your shoes," explains a Los Angeles display artist. "Two textures. Why ruin it by sticking a third texture in between?" Others now give the trend Havelock Ellis overtones, agreeing, as one Californian puts it, that "hairs on the ankle look provocative." Some girls agree. "It looks sexy," says Rosalie Netter, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "You can see the bone structure, like finely chiseled stone," says Wisconsin Sophomore Karen Knauf...