Word: maxy
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...Consider this recent episode at Grand Bahama's Britannia pub, where barmaids fetchingly wear maxi-miniskirts fashioned from the Union Jack...
...were discussing was hemlines. The subject heated up as a result of Mme. Georges Pompidou's triumphant American tour with those calf-clutching Longuettes from Paris. In women's eyes, at least, Mme. Pompidou just may have tipped the scales in the year's mini-midi-maxi skirmish. In the front line of the battle, Los Angeles-based James Galanos became the first American designer to drop all hemlines below the knee; Paris' Bernard Lanvin is scraping ankles. Manhattan's Geoffrey Beene alone seems determined to keep the knee in the public domain...
...fashion collections proved the usual circus: patrons clawed for chairs, models for air and buyers for exclusive rights. Over all, suspended in the salon air like a huge, equivocal cloud, hung the crucial question: What of the miniskirt? Would couturiers give it short shrift, lowering hems to midi and maxi lengths? The answer, by week...
...worse than that -she's a conservative dresser [Jan. 12]. She has chosen not to shill for the clothing industry, so sue her. I am a miniskirt wearer, but I shall uphold to the death of fashion Mrs. Nixon's right to wear a maxi or ignore the whole business, if that...
...Charged on 13 counts, including assault and inciting to riot during the summer eruptions, an uncharacteristically subdued Bernadette denied everything-save for having organized a defense brigade and having thrown "one stone." Throughout the trial, she never wore her blue jeans-and-boots barricade uniform, preferring fur-trimmed maxi outfits instead. Her language, too, had changed. During last summer's rioting, the prosecution charged, she had roared out: "The black bastards [police] are beaten -they're out of gas!" Said Bernadette demurely: "I imagine if I used such language in public, even fewer people would pay attention...