Word: miniskirted
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...first woman to inherit the Danish throne since the 15th century, Queen Margrethe attended the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, the London School of Economics, Cambridge and the Sorbonne. She has a sly, self-deprecating wit. Her comment on miniskirts: "The miniskirt is not impossible, but my legs are." Pretty and occasionally moody, she sometimes exercises the royal prerogative of being stuffy when she feels like it. That will probably ensure that she will never again be called, at least by Danes, by her teen-age nickname: Daisy...
...lovers would somehow stage a counterattack. They have, and with a vengeance, as is made clear in this week's Modern Living section in a story and color pictures on fashion's latest sensation-the superbrief hot pants. The new phenomenon startles even devotees of the miniskirt. Reporter-Researcher Mary Themo, who provided much of the legwork for the story, is enthusiastic about the hemline's latest caprice and is looking for the "right pair" for her own wardrobe. Writer Johanna Davis has a few more doubts. Before starting to work on the week's assignment...
...famous shops are battling through a difficult period. Late in recognizing the youthful fashion trends of the 1960s, some of the street's leading stores made stabs at enlivening their fashions and sprucing up their interiors. The results, often as unsatisfactory as a dowager in a miniskirt, alienated older customers and failed to win back the young from the flashy boutiques. The quick plunge into the unpopular midi fashions was particularly punishing...
...nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs-nunlike wimples with white maxidresses -were harmless affairs that might make ward nurses look functional if not fashionable. But the third-a pastel green body stocking with a white miniskirt-was obviously designed only for the most nubile nurses, and brought howls of amused indignation from hospital personnel. "The patients will probably collapse at the sight of a big nurse going wobble, wobble down the wards in one of those," said Patricia Ward of the United Nurses Association...
...opening of the evening two men wheel in a plastic-wrapped dressmaker's model with chalk-white face, silvery breastplate and miniskirt. They twist her limbs into contortion upon contortion, her face into horrifying grimace upon grimace. Finally they are satisfied, saying, "This will sell...