Word: miniskirt
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...Princess Anne, 16, of being somewhat dowdy. Now it seems that Anne has turned into a bit of a bird. On her way back to Benenden School in Kent after holidays, the princess showed up in London's Liverpool Street station wearing shiny black boots and a quasi-miniskirt cut three inches above the knee. Of course she still has a long way to escalate before raising any eyebrows in the Chelsea group, but all the same the Fleet Street headlines blared: "AT LAST, A REAL ROYAL FASHION SWINGER...
...couple of reporters at city hall asked New York's observant Mayor John V. Lindsay, 45, for his opinion on the fact that the miniskirt is flourishing in his fair city. "It's a functional thing," replied Hizzoner. "It enables young ladies to run faster-and because of it they may have...
...Artist Jamie Wyeth, 20, improving on his father's style while putting in some 200 hours on a portrait of John F. Kennedy; Violinist James Oliver Buswell, 20, carrying a full Harvard freshman load and a 44-city concert tour simultaneously; Actress Julie Christie, 25, shedding miniskirt for bonnet and shawl while filming Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and denouncing "kooky clothing" in the women's magazines. It is Sanford Greenberg, 25, president of the senior class at Columbia, Phi Bete, Ph.D. from Harvard, George Marshall Scholar at Oxford, special assistant to the White House...
...miniskirt in London had already risen as high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much cloth to make as a nice Victorian handkerchief. But the textile industry can take some heart. Mary has designed demure little matching boxer shorts for the birds to wear with their demi-minis. "They are the logical answer," she says, "for skirts so short that girls are showing everything...
...publications of the Methodist Church's Board of Education run mostly to sober catechisms, Sunday-school texts, and gentle lives of Jesus for six-year-olds. Standing out in this array like a miniskirt at a church social is motive, a monthly magazine aimed at Christian college students in general and Methodist ones in particular. As most of its 40,000 youthful readers will affirm, motive is probably the most provocatively adventurous church publication in the U.S. today...