Word: midi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure when John Burr Fairchild [Sept. 14] is a bitter old man, he will regret 1970, when he did his best to turn all of us who are young at heart into bitter old women with his midis. When women's knees were free, their spirit was free. They became younger, more energetic, happier. The midi makes them old, dowdy and grumpy...
...midi become the Edsel of fashion...
...never heard of Mr. Fairchild before, but I can assure you he is right for Europe if not for the States, and the midi fashion will be a success. The American women perhaps are not self-confident enough to buy midi clothes...
...Nixon by wearing a silver minidress to an evening White House reception. To demonstrate that she had learned her lesson well, Joan showed up last week at a White House luncheon for Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of Philippines President, in an unobtrusive little number: a silver leather Cardin midi with black lace-up boots and a stretch lace see-through blouse...
...unusual to find the evils of the Vietnam War displayed prominently on the front page one day, and the same slot filled by the wonders of the midi in Boston the next. The paper is, in short, inconsistent. It has staunchly liberal and stauncrly conservative reporters, who contradict each other constantly; and a conglomerate editorial page where editorialists have been known to run articles denouncing the columnists. Such divisions, however, are considered all part of putting out a good paper...