Word: obi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University's response to Obi's demands gives little indication that it would vigorously enforce an agreement on the hiring of black workers...
...understand the language," gurgled Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, the reigning Miss Universe and a girl well adapted to overcoming language barriers everywhere. After flying into Japan to hustle graciously for Royal Crown Cola, the company that sponsors her, Sylvia donned a long silk kimono and obi for a round of tradition al tea drinking. Her first pass showed a clear Western influence as she knocked back the whole cup in one gulp, but she was soon taking it down in the prescribed three sips. "It's fabulous," said Sylvia of the green Japanese brew. "It looked like pea soup...
Huggy Feeling. The gown is made of soft metallic brocade in a muted floral pattern, has short sleeves and a deep, slotted decolletage that can be hooked shut modestly or opened all the way down to a softly pulled obi sash in front. "If you feel sexy, you can open all the snaps," says Jean Tailer. "And if a woman has any figure problems, the dress disguises them." "I'm sick of the flowing dresses that have been around-I love the huggy feeling this dress gives your figure," says Noreen Drexel, who wore hers to dinner...
...hand to help the guests alight were doormen rigged out in Beefeater suits. Inside, phalanxes of blonde, straight-haired teenagers, wearing tight pants and no shoes, padded noiselessly through the vast, thickly carpeted lobby. Standing by the automatic elevators were delicately feminine Japanese starters in long kimonos and obi sashes...
...were fainting, policemen had to bar all entrances to slow down the rush and traffic was backed up for four blocks along Wilshire Boulevard. By day's end Seibu's clerks had been buffeted by 40,000 Angelenos, who bought $25,000 worth of merchandise ranging from obi cloth theater coats to men's silk suits tailored in Japan to Ivy League specifications...