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...1930s Nazidom. Fairchild loved the long slinky dresses so much that he gave private screenings of the film for designers, retailers and manufacturers. WWD thereupon opened the way for the midi by coining the expression "wardrobe of lengths," meaning that any length was O.K., up to and including the micromini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out on a Limb with the Midi | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...avenue anywhere at all that youth defiantly chooses to show its colors. By general agreement, a true mini rises to just mid-thigh. But with dresses growing shorter by the season, whole new categories have had to be advanced. "Now," notes one San Francisco designer, "there is the micromini, the micro-micro, the 'Oh, My God' and the 'Hello, Officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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