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Word: maxiskirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Designer Oleg Cassini's version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin's new $150 Nehru blazer, the Fifth Avenue store sold out its entire stock of 100 jackets the very first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Man! | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...hovercraft owes its good performance in rough seas to a kind of 7-ft.-high, nylon-and-rubber maxiskirt, which confines the cushion of compressed air below the craft but deflects when it strikes wave tops or other obstacles. To further lessen any impact, the skirt is fringed with rubber fingers that are even more flexible than the main body of the skirt. The 19½-ft. propellers, driven by four 3,400-h.p. Rolls-Royce engines, are mounted on pylons and can be swiveled 30°, enabling them to be used with two huge air rudders in maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Success on a Cushion of Air | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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