Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week's cover story was being edited, the pictures on this page show that a writer's or editor's inspiration may be only a glance away. These girls, who are researchers, secretaries and clerks, show up (nicely) for work every day in their minis. They raise few eyebrows at the office, but one girl was quite an attraction when she went home to Sioux Falls. None of them wear what the story describes as the "Hello, Officer" mini. But Writer Marshall Burchard's wife does...
...Hotels Corp., for example, is going ahead with plans to put up a $6,500,000 hotel in Kinshasa, the first to go up there since independence in 1960. Two American and several European companies are studying the possible construction of auto-assembly plants in the Congo. The Union Minière mining empire, now nationalized and called Gecomin, is operating almost at full capacity; half of the company's white technicians have stayed on to help run it. Belgium has agreed to resume its $70 million aid program, which it suspended after the Belgian embassy was stormed. About...
...miniskirt. In the three years since it made its first real appearance in small, offbeat boutiques and far-out discotheques, it has surged onto the campuses, into offices, out on the avenue anywhere at all that youth defiantly chooses to show its colors. By general agreement, a true mini rises to just mid-thigh. But with dresses growing shorter by the season, whole new categories have had to be advanced. "Now," notes one San Francisco designer, "there is the micromini, the micro-micro, the 'Oh, My God' and the 'Hello, Officer...
...fact, the mini is only the symbol of a far-ranging change in fashion that has toppled the old dictators of style and brought into power a new group of designers, plugged in to the here-and-now tastes of youth bold, irreverent, geared high, full of jokes and independence. Fashion feeds on change, and what is In one moment is often Out the next. The flapper dresses of the 1920s, for instance, skimmed the top of the knee for only two years (1926-27) before hemlines began falling. Dior's New Look, which sent skirts plummeting in the post...
...season is two months old and one thing is clear: the situation comedies are getting better than ever. Not those dreary half-hour retreads, but those one-minute mini-ha-ha's called commercials...