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Warsaw is still dominated by the hideous 38-story Palace of Culture, Russia's gift to Poland, but its Stalinist style has become an empty symbol. Downtown Warsaw, with its shiny new glass-and-steel buildings and wide sidewalks, exudes freshness and openness. The women of the major cities...
What, then, are the right words? Easy to ask; impossible to answer. Should people who are against large organizations be called "minis"? They would not like that. Or should we try for neutral terms, like those of the Blue and Green factions that troubled Byzantium, or like Whig and Tory...
All through the summer the questions loomed over the fashion horizon: Whither the midi? Would autumn, and the return to real clothes, find women taking the downward drift in stride, their minis in mothballs, their legs in hiding? Designers scoffed at alternatives, and so-called smart stores had little else...
Sir: As a subscriber to Women's Wear Daily I have been amused by the persistence of Mr. Fairchild to push the midi onto the American women [Sept. 14]. All year WWD has sung the praises of the Longuette and branded Xs over the knees of women, like Jackie...
In Washington, where the social set runs a bit longer in the tooth than in New York, a few senior wives have gratefully followed Mrs. Nixon's return to the midi as a way of dealing with the ravages of time. Film stars present a mixed pattern; those whose bodies...