Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening last December five girls were skipping arm in arm down a country road singing "Yellow submarine" at the top of their lungs. They wore knee socks and ski parkas and could have passed for happy camp-fire girls. Actually, they were Wellesley sophomores travelling from the library to the dining hall. An unofficial count revealed that 29 per cent of all Wellesley girls wear knee socks during the week...
...also decided that bare legs are as bad as shaggy chins. Though red-blooded Rumanians like to think of Bucharest as "the Paris of the Balkans," the authorities have also banned miniskirts. When nubile girls came upon some Western fashion magazines and began drawing up their skirts over the knee, the regime began dressing down the culprits. The styles quickly changed, but the Rumanian girls, most of whom are their own seamstresses, did not completely toe the party hemline. The latest style is the knee-length skirt that has a few inches of lace or fur sewn onto...
...among the pincushions did nothing to keep away 850 journalists and 550 buyers, for whom Paris is still a prime laboratory for new ideas. And they found plenty to report. Not that skirts were longer; Feraud's hemlines, for instance, ranged from three to five inches above the knee, and hardly a dress in any of the showings could be worn by a woman over 35. "All that's missing in these collections is diapers," snapped one conservative couturier. But on the principle that when skirts keep going up, something must come down, designer after designer rediscovered shorts...
...dowdy. Now it seems that Anne has turned into a bit of a bird. On her way back to Benenden School in Kent after holidays, the princess showed up in London's Liverpool Street station wearing shiny black boots and a quasi-miniskirt cut three inches above the knee. Of course she still has a long way to escalate before raising any eyebrows in the Chelsea group, but all the same the Fleet Street headlines blared: "AT LAST, A REAL ROYAL FASHION SWINGER...
Canada's Nancy Greene, 23, weighs only 125 Ibs., and she can do 40 deep knee bends with a 170-lb. barbell across her shoulders. That ought to be enough to make her an intercollegiate weight-lifting champ. But Nancy uses her muscles on skis, and she does it better than any other woman in the world, as the French discovered to their distress last week...