Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle that when skirts keep going up, something must come down, designer after designer rediscovered shorts, called forthrightly "les Bermudas." For daytime, Esterel showed shorts worn with knee socks; for evening, Madame Grès let them peek through a floor-length skirt slit to the hip like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...
With receivers as small and totable as a hip flask, one-way radio pagers are now a hot item. Some emit only a beep that tells the recipient to call his office from wherever he is. Others give out a beep-voice combination. Either way, the system is simple in concept: Party A wants to reach Party B, who is nowhere near a telephone. Party A calls a radio-paging center. There, an operator sends out an individually toned beep, or a voice instruction, to Party B, who is wearing a paging device. Party B goes to a telephone...
Lindner is a pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
...with it nowadays, the swinger and would-be swinger are expected to take a blase if not widely permissive view of LSD, marihuana, and virtually anything else that offers a flight into funsville. Since it helps to have a little intellectual support, the more anxiously hip members of the Now Generation will find some comfort in this one-sided propaganda volume in praise...
What Diana has done-and nobody thought of doing before-is to make dresses that switch on and off. By using pliable plastic lamps sewn into the clothes in segments and connected to a rechargeable battery pack worn on the hip, just like Batman, she has been able to produce minidresses with throbbing hearts and pulsating belly stars, as well as pants with flashing vertical side seams and horizontal bands that march up and down the legs in luminous sequence. "They're hyperdelic transsensory experiences," says Diana. Potentiometers on the battery pack allow the wearer to produce from...