Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country fair for children of Government leaders on the White House lawn last week, Lynda showed up, with Chuck, in a mod cow-wrangler rig of mini-culottes-revealing an eye-popping expanse of leg-and a five-gallon hat that showed how far Hamilton's chic influence on her wardrobe had faded...
Heading up the West German mission to Moscow was Dr. Karl König, West Berlin's Economics Minister. Like the other West German visitors, König could hardly hide his glee when Russian designers flocked to German displays. They sketched and photographed everything, from the wildest mod look to the more functional fashions that Russian women favor. "Even seamstresses couldn't believe how we put our coats and dresses together," said one West Berliner. "It was all I could do to keep them from tearing the garments apart to see how they were made." Buyers were...
...swinging example of her work has been published jointly by the United Church Press and the Roman Catholic firm of Herder and Herder. Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book is a 50-page volume of mod meditations filled with brilliant swatches of color and eye-catching graphics. Most of Sister Corita's serigraphs use kaleidoscopic excerpts from advertising slogans blown up and tossed across the pages, often upside down, sideways or in mirror images. Accompanying them are quotations that range from Hasidic folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse...
...eventually from branches in other major cities, it will back its British clients with market research, advertising and promotion. Next month Lion & Unicorn will bring a couple of nubile nobles, Lady Mary Gaye Georgiana Curzon and her sister, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon,* to New York to model mod clothes. The com pany hopes to sell $15 million worth of goods during its first 15 months, earning commissions...
Nevertheless, the park has become a preserve for high school kids who can't afford to sit in the Blue Parrot all day, and for marijuana brokers who use the spot as a pot Rialto. The rich ones sport Truc-loads of mod clothes and jewelery, the poor ones flaunt their general dishevellment. In the course of a day, 200 or 300 come and go. The Cambridge cops chase everyone away at midnight...