Word: miniskirt
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...Hair is much more a confronting experience than a performance. Kids dig the whole scene anyway. But the Broadway theatre-goer-whose daughter typically leaves his house in a cute little miniskirt and Villager shirt, only to change outside into dungaree bells and a greasy workshirt so she can make it down in the East Village- chafes in his starched shirt and itching boxer shorts at the prospect of having to talk to the long-haired hippies who circulate throughout the theatre before the show begins, trying to communicate with straight adult society. His wife elbows him gently...
...show time in Paris last week, and the spring fashion collections proved the usual circus: patrons clawed for chairs, models for air and buyers for exclusive rights. Over all, suspended in the salon air like a huge, equivocal cloud, hung the crucial question: What of the miniskirt? Would couturiers give it short shrift, lowering hems to midi and maxi lengths? The answer, by week...
Hell no, folks, it's worse than that -she's a conservative dresser [Jan. 12]. She has chosen not to shill for the clothing industry, so sue her. I am a miniskirt wearer, but I shall uphold to the death of fashion Mrs. Nixon's right to wear a maxi or ignore the whole business, if that...
...circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially at the Sun's imitativeness. In a reference to its comic-stripping blonde of the '40s and '50s, the Mirror asked: "Why not exhume Jane's great-grandmother? The old bitch would be flattered and she'd wear a miniskirt or see-through dress at the drop of a pair of knickers...
...Designer Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt...