Word: miniskirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus during the recent Junior Parents' Weekend, were a plethora of preppy classics, from crewneck sweaters over jeans and corduroys to Brooks Brothers and J. Press sports jackets and rep ties. Sparking the classic mix: blouson or jean jackets, retro-looking ski sweaters, and the very occasional flash of miniskirt-bared legs. Adding their own ineffable brand of casual chic were a group of French students touring Harvard, wearing the born-again preppie garb which, ironically, is also the latest rage in Paris...
...Press-Scimitar was once a lusty voice in a bawdy town on a river bluff. A typically irreverent headline: MOUNDS OF EVIDENCE BARED IN TOPLESS CASE! It set new lows in participatory journalism. In the 1960s it bedecked its most fetching female reporter in the stingiest miniskirt available, sent her sashaying down Main Street, photographed the event and published the pictures across the top of Page One under the screaming pronouncement LOVE IS A MINI-SPLENDORED THING! For all this silliness, it had a down-home feel to it, and readers who stuck with it professed to prefer its casualness...
Decked out in mesh stockings, spike heels and a nun's habit slashed to miniskirt length, Jack Fertig, a San Francisco transvestite, campaigned for a seat on the eleven-member San Francisco board of supervisors last November under the alias of Sister Boom Boom. On the ballot he had listed his occupation as "nun of the above," and he got 23,124 votes. This was not enough to win a supervisor's seat, but enough to encourage him to enter this fall's mayoral election. Also declaring: "Lady Lillian Chaucer-Peace, gentlewoman," "James Bond Zero, political exorcist...
Afterward, Maura Moynihan, in her leather miniskirt and cowboy boots, scrambles straightway to the top of an 8-ft.-high pedestal and works off her postperformance nervous energy by go-go dancing. Cornelia, all smiles, steps off the stage to be kissed and congratulated by her mother and brother, by Roberto, by Fashion Photographer Francesco Scavullo, by one of her agents and by half a dozen trim, middle-aged men in business suits who have been buzzing around...
...side of him is a elegant-looking woman, with flowing blonde hair. She wears a sparkling evening gown and white tennis shoes, bouncing up and down to the pounding beat. To the other side of the man is another woman who is banging away on a keyboard. Her red miniskirt and beehive hairdoo stand out. At the back of the stage are two more clean-cut-men--preppy almost, were it not for their New York intelligentsia slacks and shirts. One, head down, is slinging away on lead guitar, sending up the wall of sound that has enveloped the theatre...