Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is anything a girl skier dislikes more than a better girl skier, it is the girl who sits in the lodge and never skis at all. Because the "snow bunny" is lazy, scheming, and a fake? No. Simply because fashion has always seemed to be in her favor. Bundled up in a puffy parka that threw her best curves to the wind, the genuine skier did not stand a chance against the indoor snow job, with her tight turtleneck and clinging stretch pants. Now, however, the sleek look is getting off the chaise longue and hitting the slopes...
...they suggested I work in a bank adding figures all day long." Capucine had other ideas. Instead of examining other people's figures, she thought other people ought to examine hers. The Nefertiti profile, the lean hungry look, quickly made her a mannequin for Givenchy and a top fashion model...
...FASHION by Mila Contini. 321 pages. Odyssey. $12.95. After studying haute couture from the Pharaohs forward, Signora Contini, an Italian journalist, concludes that women dress that way to entice men. Her verdict is scarcely as edifying as the 550 illustrations, which show that nearly every current style has ancient ancestry. Nefertiti's pleated tunic would draw envious stares at a Met opening night. Roman women carried collapsible umbrellas. In 18th century France coiffures soared higher than they do in today's discotheques...
...Painted Mess. Walking somewhere between the embattled geniuses, Sportswear Designer John Weitz has no doubt that he is in a scrap. There are, he admits, two good fashion photographers: Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. "Most of the others want to be photography's Andy Warhol. They exult in taking photographs with clothes that can't be seen, and a beautiful girl ends up looking like a painted mess...
...appropriately titled "From the Bridge," New York master builder and president of the recently concluded World's Fair, Robert Moses, 76, discusses what he likes best: bridges, superhighways and other public works. And what he likes least: his critics, whom he tells off in his customary salty fashion...