Word: midi
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...other store has a greater stake in making the controversial midi lengths acceptable than Manhattan's elegant Bonwit Teller. Early this month President William Fine reported that the store's fall fashions will be 95% midi-a figure considerably higher than that of most competitors, who are still hedging their fashion bets. Now Bonwit's has moved to prevent its employees from undermining its bold gamble. After Aug. 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi...
...requires public contact and the employers will not hire him, he has voluntarily restricted his chances of finding work." Hence the longhair is not entitled to unemployment insurance. The state office in Sacramento is backing Hammond. Only 3% of the employers surveyed want to hire girls who wear midi or micro-mini skirts either, but for the moment they are chivalrously being kept on the unemployment rolls...
...midi skirt is ungainly, unflattering and unwarranted. But it is nonetheless a fashion fact. Rebellious consumers have raised voices, but the hemlines have stayed down: the fall collections include hardly a mini. Still, the new lengths offer compensations, sometimes by baring the bosom, often-in a sudden, gratuitous flash-by revealing the upper thigh. Zippers and buttons, snaps and laces-all open a variety of ways designed to persuade girls, and girl watchers, that all is not lost...
Chester Weinberg zippers one sweater dress straight up the middle, slashes a velvet version well above the knees, and matches a short suede battle jacket to a "hula skirt" made entirely of strips of suede. Pierre Cardin's ready-to-wear collection stars a three-toned jersey midi slit in front and back, and others slashed into inverted U's or petal shapes...
Jack-o'-Lanterns' Teeth. Valentino was first with the layered look (either a shorter skirt worn underneath a midi coat, or the skirt itself divided into tiers of different lengths), but Jacques Tiffeau, Bill Blass and Donald Brooks have added frosting. Tiffeau has wrapped a deeply slashed camel-colored midi over a maroon mini skirt and topped some of his evening wear with necklines that do not stop till they hit the waist. Bill Blass settles for the double hemline for daywear and pulls out all stops at night with a series of multilevel chiffon dresses, plus some...