Word: haltered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backless, Frontless. For some, it was tricky going. Emilio Pucci's sheer white halter top and harem pants arrived at Linda Hackett's Park Avenue apart ment with a written warning that she would have to do something about keeping her bosom in. "Band-Aids don't work," she later declared. But Linda, who designs clothes herself, engineered it all with a mysterious combination of "spirit gum and something else...
...thing, there is the question of how to keep underthings out of sight. Plunging armholes, cut-outs and open midriffs bare whatever necklines don't reveal. Yesterday's brassieres were sturdy supports; today they have become slim bands in the wispiest of fabrics, with halter straps for bareback dresses, and low sides for bib tops. Since the bare spots change from dress to dress, the bras are flexible, come with convertible straps that crisscross every which way for one-shoulder, no-shoulder, U, V or X decolletes. Panties have shrunk to bikini briefs; petticoats begin...
...flutter about in wide drapery harem pants, try slinging her hooded Arab cloak over her bead-necklace top and hip-hugging pants. And for those who expect to fall, or be thrown, into a pool, there is' an evening bathing suit with a top that is just a halter of beads...
...suits that will have men looking at places that never seemed interesting before. Some designers were exploiting the possibilities of netting, which coyly shams at concealing what it clearly reveals. "The back is sexually important, while the exposed navel is no longer news," proclaims Designer Bill Blass, whose backless halter for Roxanne is the halter of the season...
...successfully. The heart of this comedy is heartlessness, and its surface is its substance. It demands dry, stylized cynicism. By temperament and training, this is alien to the American actor, who almost invariably tries to humanize his role and to bridle the most outrageous farce with the halter of naturalistic plausibility. And Wycherley's characters cannot be played as people, since they are monsters in velvet and lace, transparencies of vice through which the playgoer is meant to view...