Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...topless swimsuits have become ancient history, and the thong never really caught on. So Designer Rudi Gernreich has come up with a new entry in the field of frivolous fashion: boxer shorts for women. Says he: "You can jog in them, sleep in them, wear them around the house, around the pool or over a bare swimsuit" These modified B.V.D.s will appear in stores throughout the U.S. by March and will sell for $5 to $7. The men's garters, he quickly adds, are not included...
...with his first win of the year. Any doubt about the eventual outcome that might have remained after Albert's triumph was quickly dispelled, as the next three Harvard grapplers, Milt Yasunaga (126 lbs.), Bill Mulvihill (134 lbs.), and George Baker (142 lbs.) all pinned their opponents in easy fashion...
...Rivenhall pulled the door to behind them, and in a very rough fashion jerked her into his arms, and kissed her. "I don't. I dislike you excessively!" he said savagely...
Surrounding the hero and heroine, however, is a world full of characters more willing than they to bow to the rigid dictates of regency fashion. Elderly female relatives are constantly shocked at the heroine's outspokenness, and make liberal use of handkerchiefs, tears, and smelling salts. Vapid young men simper about in absurd clothes, worrying only about the make of their Hessians and the height of their collars. Brainless beauties fall desperately in love with ineligible fortune hunters and threaten to elope across the border to Scotland in the face of their family's disapproval. These other, less competent characters...
Except for a few shifts by the Hughes-Clasby-Garrity line, Harvard's offense sputtered through three periods. The Crimson managed only 25 shots on Skidmore, while Petrovek turned aside 28 attempts, many of them in spectacular fashion...