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Then the doors opened, and the dripping masses poured in. Divide and conquer was the rule. The women stormed the stairs to the Marimekko dresses. The patient wicker stool-sitter triumphantly claimed a $969 sofa, reduced to $700. He had a brief scuffle with a parvenu female customer who arrived at 9, but she quickly yielded before such obviously superior expertise...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: BARGAIN-HUNTERS BATTLE DURING DR SALE | 1/22/1964 | See Source »

...sweeping generalizations, ("Everyone who is anyone"..."if you're with it"..."Dressy Dresses Are Out,") may make. 'Cliffies take a quick dislike to it. But unfortunately its assertion of a trend in clothing is quite well-founded. Just wait until Spring when Women's Wear Daily discovers Marimekko...

Author: By Fave Levine, | Title: Capes, Bags, Boots Are 'In' at 'Cliffe | 12/3/1963 | See Source »

...adopt it are sometimes thought of as the Radcliffe stereotype, and probably give wholesome Harvard freshmen from Iowa their first proof that the East is indeed strange looking. Greek shoulderbags are extremely popular, as are ski jackets, black tights, pierced ears, half high heels, long unpolished fingernails, rain ponchos, "Marimekko" dresses, primitive jewlry, and long hair. The most well-dressed of them imitate a European sort of gray-beige, expensive simplicity; the sloppy ones wear ski polo shirts and dungarees and can be called (to their probable disdain) "beat." They have generally been to Europe, or hitchhiked across America...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: The Three Flavors of Radcliffe | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

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