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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1970 | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1970 | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1970 | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 5, 1970 | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: A Bank Is Robbed, A Cop Is Killed, A Movement Is Hung | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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