Word: midi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fairchild [Sept. 14] has put fashion into Nowheresville. While the mini may have seemed to some "not enough," the midi is "too much." What we have in between appears to be no man's land...
...liberated" female who discards her bra as a rejection of male subjugation, and dons a midi regardless of the obvious manipulation by the fashion industry, doesn't know who is giving her support and who is putting her down...
...What you seemed to miss is that for the individual, fashion should be FUN! In variety and change there is that fun. As for the midi, let's hope it helps to bring back those qualities so sadly lacking from the recent sartorial scene: grace, elegance and good taste...
East Germany suffers no fabric shortage, but a conversion to the midi would cost thousands of production hours in the textile mills if they had to turn out sufficient cloth to drape the collective calf. It is one Communist conspiracy that American men might welcome...
...took to it quickly," explained Sophia Loren, "probably because I'm tall." As she arrived in Paris for a visit last week, Sophia was wearing it - a midi -in the form of a loose-fitting suit. The result was enough to give pause to the most enthusiastic advocate of the mid-calf look. If the midi makes So phia look ungainly, what must it do to women who are merely beautiful...