Word: sarong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is doubt that the length of scarves, per se, is the only reason for the fad. Foresighted students see in them a return to primitive modes of dress. If a gradual broadening accompanies lengthening, scarves could become sort of northern hemisphere sarong (with appropriate college colors). As they are, the scarves could replace conventional hardware in summer and winter, done up like Far East turbans...
When the scarf reaches ten feet, it is an easy step to twenty feet, and from there to thirty feet, and so on. Many people could own the same scarf and wear it at the same time, as a turban, sarong, or plain old muffler. And particularly crafty young men would buy one scarf, then cut it into two or three equal or unequal sections for presentation to their current lady friends. Interesting sidelights would be scarf bundling parties and scarf rides. It certainly looks like the "More Than Six Footer" is a good thing and is here to stay...
...R.A.F. doctor gave her sodium amytal as a sedative. Shortly after 9 o'clock, she went into the rooms where her two sons, Darryl John, 2½, and Edmund, 4, lay sleeping. Later, the wing commander and his wife found her standing in the bathroom, clad in a sarong, with her slashed wrists bleeding into the bathtub. "I have planned it a long time," said Mrs. Parsons. "If one of us went, the other would not live. I have killed my children. We loved him so much, and you know how much he loved us. He would...
...Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with his betrothed, Bridegroom Thein took both Than and San to be his lawful wedded wives...
...Svelte sarong-sisters, Dorothy Lamour and Debra Paget, portly Alfred Hitch-cock, and Harry (The River) Breen, with their retinues of press agents and movie moguls will proceed under police escorts to the Sumner statue, near the information booth...