Word: fishnet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrictions vary widely. The only rule at San Francisco's fashionable Shreve's jewelry store is a prohibition against sleeveless dresses on saleswomen. A Houston chemical company looks askance at fishnet hose and false eyelashes. At California Federal Savings & Loan, says one official dryly, "We don't care if a man wears a beard, just so long as he doesn't wear it into the office." Geico Insurance Co.'s Washington office frowns on culotte dresses, but refrains from formally banning them because they are often difficult to detect. Many companies, in fact, shy away...
...Warm, friendly, mature girls," on the other hand, wear fishnet sweaters, black stockings, and colored underwear, according to Snavely. Other positive factors are very long or very short hair, indicating "that a girl wants to characterize herself as anti-apple pie;" flatchestedness, making a girl tend to "prove her femininity and sexuality however she can;" and coming alone to the mixer, a show "of maturity and self-confidence which her flocking sisters cannot claim...
...fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them up is an inconstant nympho (Candice Bergen) who moves with the natural fluid grace of a hand puppet...
...little more than a bare bodkin. "I'm supposed to have on one body stocking," confided Gloria, "but I have on three." "I like to look pretty, not kooky," said Chessie Rayner, explaining why she put on a white silk slip underneath Bill Blass's fishnet A-line dress...
...Manhattan's Arnold Constable, the show belonged to Caroline Charles, one of the dozen young designers of the "Chelsea Revolution" whose presumptuous styles have forced even the London fog to lift. Backed by the wailing beat and flanked by dancers in fishnet stockings, the Charles collection mesmerized a series of teen-age audiences. And music, as sales figures testify, has something to do with fashion. Said Caroline, to the rhythmic sound of amplified guitars: "Dig one, you're bound to dig the other...