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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...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: HAIR: | 2/14/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The French Line | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1970 | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stooping to Conquer | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...Designer Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Top of the Decade: Modern Living | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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