Word: hemmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...palazzos have their faults. In high winds, their flaring legs can flap like sails, tending to impede walking. "If a woman speeds around in them too quickly," says Los Angeles designer Jim Reva, "she'll trip on" the flowing hems. Palazzos also tempt women to pull the baggy britches on over their shoes, a procedure that can be dangerous. One Atlanta girl successfully got one shoe in but snagged the other on the voluminous hem and fell on her nose...
...Bolt. Sewing machines now do practically everything but press the finished garment. Dial a knob or change a foot and your machine can sew on buttons or make flawless buttonholes. Machines can also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus...
...verdict is nationwide. New York's Daily News, whose pollsters have miscalled only three out of 30 major U.S. elections, canvassed more than 22,000 readers this month, reported 83% wearing skirts above the knee (a percentage in accord with the daily "Hem Line Index," compiled by Manhattan's Women's Haberdashers shops and posted in the window of the main store). Sales figures for the midi are harder to come by, though a representative of a chain of Boston dress shops admits, "Business is not as bouncy as we would like...