Word: midi
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...face it. The midi [Aug. 3] is for fun and games. Who in their right mind wants to look like a stylish mushroom? Who wants to grease the palms of Paris "designers" (who all had the same vision at once) and textile companies...
Manhattan stores such as Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor and Ohrbach's have also been advertising the midi lustily, and more directly. Proclaimed Ohrbach's: "THE KNEE is DEAD...
...Christ's sake, Howard, get off my back." Stein and Hardy are now con spiring to persuade women employees to wear pantsuits in the office to fight the onslaught of the midi. Hardy's next plan is to wipe out neckties at the Drey fus headquarters. "By fall," he says, "we'll be wearing turtleneck sweaters...
...word of its own ebbing strength. "This year," predicted Robert Ricci, "is the year of the big change. Last year was bad for business because women hesitated to buy. There had been no decision. This year will be much better." The decision, of course, was to strike the mini-midi-maxi declension from the fashion texts. Now, as far as Paris is concerned, there are to be only two kinds of hemlines: long and longer. Perhaps. But women busy liberating themselves from so many other ukases may not go along meekly on this...
...Meir, wearing a new turquoise midi that was far brighter than her mood, delivered a 30-minute foreign policy speech to the Knesset that sounded like a subtle no to Washington's plan. A temporary ceasefire, Mrs. Meir said, would only permit the Arabs to "prepare for the renewal of the war in a more intense form." Her point was underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed...