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...bend-over style." Nowhere do miniskirts raise more eyebrows than in the Ford Foundation's new Manhattan headquarters, where secretaries work in glass-enclosed offices. Overcome by a sudden sense of modesty, one secretary, perched at a graceful but unprotective typewriter pedestal, recently sewed a minicurtain and draped it in front of her. It evidently never occurred to her to use needle and thread to lower her thigh-high hems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FASHION SHOW IN THE OFFICE | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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