Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mode has never been especially mod. In fact, Britain's catty fashion press has sometimes accused 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...
...already using girls from a Bucharest bordello as mod els. This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
...unfolding her perfect crime, British Playwright Macaulay tries hard to be à la Mod. Her actors, uniformly able, have been directed to play it cool and campy, while tossing off supposedly chic little references to existentialism. They perform with the cheery abandon of those who see a closing notice looming in the immediate future...
...subsists on brown rice, and has a boy friend called Medulla Oblongata who blows oud for an acid-rock combo known as the Gurus. She is also, as of five months ago, a designer for the far-out Paraphernalia boutique chain. And so quickly do things happen in the mod, mod world of fashion that she has already been hailed as a major innovator, and last week was the hit of the show at Paraphernalia's Manhattan workshop...
...Louis merchants, keeping tab on the exchanges, have concluded that most husbands think their wives are slenderer than they really are while mothers assume their daughters are too fat. Teenagers, of course, decide that the clothes their parents picked for them are fresh from the Dark Ages. Mod shops like "Man at Ease" in Chicago report a lively post-holiday business in gear bought with cash derived in part from the returns at Marshall Field and Carson, Pirie Scott...