Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles with their highly contrived messages. Its just like Dylan, he can say in a few words what it would take Janis Ian a whole song to get at. I've only recently begun to listen to Dylan's songs closely and they're very literate. Like Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. its comic and intelligent. very good as literature." All this delivered in the soft slurring curiously exciting working-class London accent...
Although it remarked favorably on her 35-26-36 measurements, her "dazzling" smile, "pretty" legs and "clear" skin, the London fashion magazine Nova nonetheless lamented last week that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II-at 42 -is "by no means a glamour girl." So Nova took the problem to the French for frank answers. "Pluck the eyebrows," ordered Carita of Paris. "Mold the cheekbones . . . The eyes must be emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane...
...laces loosely down the front. This one anticipates another coming fashion trend-to leather. It is made out of a new material that looks like leather, "breathes" like leather, but can get wet all over. "It's fantastic," he says, "water rolls right off it." Just like human skin...
Even the relatively covered-up styles expose considerable areas of flesh, presenting many women with their annual moment of awful truth. "Next to going to a dentist, women most dread buying a bathing suit," says Ann Cole. Her calculated remedy: a new line of skin-colored suits embroidered with white flowers. The wearers look trim and nude -from a distance-while remaining covered and helpfully girdled. "It's sex and conservatism in one package," Miss Cole states. Another camouflage is a new version of that old favorite, the tunic, which hangs loosely to the hips and adds a touch...
Real Society women tend to be tweedy-leathery, observes Birmingham -the leathery part being the texture of their perpetually tanned skin. "Hair is a blond mixture, streaked from the sun, of middle length, and is often caught at the back of the neck in a little net bag." Despite such allure, a man of Real Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery...