Word: miniskirt
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Youth in Command. The most visual, persistent and audacious element of the new fashions is the 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...
After years of jamming, Russians are now allowed to hear the BBC, Radio Liberty and other Western radio stations without interference. The youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has taken to giving teen-agers advice on such formerly taboo subjects as "How short should a miniskirt be?" The socialist answer: Every girl should decide for herself, depending upon the attractiveness of her legs and the chilliness of the weather. Public-opinion polls, which were long banned, have suddenly become a craze. One question not being asked: Do you approve of the job that Premier Kosygin and his colleagues are doing...
...Finland has devalued its currency, this time by nearly one-third. In the future, it will require 4.2 Finn-marks, instead of 3.2, to equal a U.S. dollar. The move was received with resignation. Jested Kari Suomalainen, a leading cartoonist: "First we had the minicar, then we had the miniskirt, and now we have the minimark...
...frantically gyrating to earsplitting records of the Modern Jazz Quartet. His styles still echo the severe architectural geometry of his original look-the first and only new look that Paris has offered in 20 years. He still favors Mary Jane shoes and calf-length white socks, and his original miniskirt is just where he first cut it off-four inches above the knee...
What fascinates Paris buyers is that he has managed to remain Courreges while softening his line. Softer generally meant sexier. One bountiful mannequin almost frugged herself out of a sheer organdy miniskirt that was hitched by a strap in front to a little bolero top, cut short enough to expose the under-slope of her bosom. The gentlest touch of all: big imitation posies that were strewn over his pants, dresses, socks and, as an afterthought, incorporated into his models' hairdos. "I got up early this morning and started cutting out those flowers for the hair," said the usually...