Word: nylon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brassières like Maidenform's nylon net ($4) and Vanity Fair's stretch band ($4) are every bit as rudimentary as Rudi's: they may get by splayed out on a department-store counter, but displayed-even on 100% synthetic mannequins-in show windows, they are likely to stop traffic, start riots, and end up as exhibits in night court. Even those with a bit more substance to them, like Bien Jolie's flowered-net version ($11) and Warner's "The Body" ($12.50), are sheer enough to read through, small print included...
With two friends, Gigi Panel, 50, and Alberto Tassotti, 47, Bonatti took two days to reach the shelter at Hornli Ridge, 10,500 ft. up, paused briefly to rest, and began to attack the 3,550-ft. cliff of the north wall. Going up hand over hand on nylon ropes, they climbed only 420 ft. on the first day. The next day was almost as tough: 550 ft. Both nights they slept suspended in midair on ropes anchored to pitons, with sleeping bags pulled up to their shoulders and nylon tents over their heads to protect them from the bitter...
...quit at the garter (those that do, tame enough when standing, reveal flashes of thigh beneath the new short skirts that make sitting down as much a pleasure for male onlookers as it is a comfort for their girls). Mary Grey has textured tights in stretch nylon, Beautiful Bryans in nanny-white lace, and Kayser-Roth promises some misty spring numbers abloom with flowers from tippytoe to waist. The ultimate extension, of course, is the jumpsuit; Capezio has one in white ribbed stretch nylon ($33), Bewitching in sheer black lace ($15). First meant to be worn "under everything from evening...
...enjoy picking at Macy's the fruits of capitalist enterprise. For those who cannot make the trip to Herald Square, Macy's has a personal shopping service. Among millions of routine assignments, it has dispatched six bottles of Coppertone to a sunburned Englishman in Libya and enough nylon material for the wife of a Kuwait sheik to make a tablecloth to accommodate 84 diners...
...ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...