Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mawr, Pa., listened with solemn commencement faces as Dwight Eisenhower, 76, spoke to them of the glories of education and the unwisdom of picking a political leader "by his beauty or by his shock of hair." All of a sudden the girls began giggling and looking nervously at their knee-length skirts. The former President, basing his remarks on the fact that "I have been looking at good-looking girls since I was six," sounded off with some unexpected and decidedly unpolitical opinions about ladies' fashions. "Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking," said Ike, whose 18-year...
...Eisenhower was pausing to study the knee, Britain's dashing Prince Philip, 46, was scouting the higher ground. On a visit to the fashion-design department at Salford Technical College, Lancashire, the duke's eye fastened disapprovingly upon a miniskirt worn by 18-year-old Lorraine Hillier. "You are not being generous enough," he chided. "Compared with others, you are not showing enough leg." Since her hem was already three inches above the knee, Lorraine could but blush and tee-hee, but later she went solemnly to the heart of the matter: "My boy friend would like them...
...began showing up in Paris earlier this spring, the question has been whether or not skirts would take a big plunge this fall. Rest easy, men: skirts are still flying high. "There's no controversy about skirt lengths as long as they're twelve inches above the knee," wags Gernreich. Actually, he will ship them five inches longer than that-which is a good idea, since a skirt much shorter is no skirt at all. And, to be on the safe side, Rudi recommends double skirts-a longer underskirt for ordinary streetwear, which can be slipped...
Buccaneer Boots. To be sure, there were some Maxis. Weinberg did a couple in velvet, but he also showed many skirts that came three inches to five inches above the knee. Jacques Tiffeau offered up some Maxis, or "midis," as he calls them, but he, too, paraded a number of minis, some dramatically teamed with floor-length "Minuit" coats. Most designers seemed to side with Trigere: "I don't believe in the midi, or sweeping New York dirt into your apartment." Thus, in most collections, though skirts are floor length for evening, they fall somewhere above the knee...
...minority, Marisol's version was "shocking." They favored an idealized version of Father Damien as a young man with a tiny child clutching at his knee, submitted by Sculptor Nathan Cabot Hale. The Hawaiian House of Representatives voted to back Hale's model, and the whole Hawaiian archipelago began taking sides...