Word: midi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday evening began with Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, a liquid-sounding piece that flows in one continuous sweep. Wolff's interpretation evoked a number of mesmerizing images. However, the performance did not swell and gradually overflow in its fullness from one section to the next, but rather began de novo each time new instruments were signalled to play...
...Bach Society Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, Conductor, plays Debussy: L'apres-midi D'un Faune; Mozart: "Paris" Symphony, K. 297; and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, in G, Richard Kogan, Piano. Tickets: $1.00 at Holyoke Center and the Door. Saturday...
...Parisian chemise looks very old to me." Impoverished once by the midi superflop of 1970, other Yankee buyers announced plans to hike hemlines to more profitable altitudes or to use slinkier, clinging fabrics for the U.S. market. "People don't care about what Paris says," commented a liberated pro from one Chicago boutique. "It takes a while for things to filter down. Maybe by next fall it will make a difference-pants are what's selling...
...Since the favored fabrics of 1974 are gossamer-thin and always unlined, they need, even demand ample length to prevent skirts from being unintentionally hoisted at the slightest breeze. The result is a calf-length skirt that is wider, freer and not quite as long as the ill-fated midi...
...always, hemline lengths "don't really matter" any more to the likes of Yves St. Laurent; as always, buyers and fashion writers looked first to the calf. The results were generally high-level (just below the knee), though midi-scarred U.S. buyers noted nervously that St. Laurent, Marc Bohan and others insisted on prolonging the scene in some of their models all the way down to mid-calf level. Ungaro even dipped to just-above-ankle, granny-style length for streetwear, to be worn over high-heeled boots. Still, there was much to applaud (if not to afford): daytime...