Word: midi
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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...
...definitive balloting on Women's Lib will be conducted this fall. If the midi wins, back to Kinder, Kiiche, Kirche with the whole sorry lot of them...
There is, after all, a place where American women might escape the oncoming tyranny of midi fashions, though it seems an extreme solution. Despite the normally puritanical attitude of most Communist regimes, East Germany's state fashion institute has pronounced its anathema on the midi. "Such creations do not agree with our active style of life," said a spokesman for the Deutsches Mode-Institut, which dictates styles to East German couturiers. "The main characteristics of our fashion are: young, optimistic and purposeful...
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...