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The men in the Chinese delegation, save the waiters who sported white tops and used cardboard Coca-cola boxes instead of trays, wore the same sort of suit that Mao was dressed in, with various shades of dark gray. The women wore similar gray pants with short, colored, brocade tops...
Cardin went to China and received permission to stage two fashion shows there in March. When Teng went to Japan his wife and the wives of four other officials on the trip were turned out in trimly cut silk jackets and pants, an elegant change from the monochrome Mao suits...
Success does carry its benefits. Telephone callers to Rohr's Manhattan apartment these days are greeted by a tape-recorded message that says, "Seat-of-the-Pants: helping to build a better world through novelty underwear."
The crucial breakthrough occurred when Frank Wright, the buyer at Bloomingdale's, fell in love with the boxers, Rohr said. Wright placed an order for 5000 shorts, and Seat-of-the-Pants was suddenly in the driver's seat.
Most, of course, including strong-minded feminists, will agree that the first bunches of women, bra-less, in baggy pants and shirts, toting signs and pleading for sexual equality presented a somewhat unappealing image. But, consider that practically everyone back then, men too, was dressing in "proletarian garb." It just...