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...Little Below the Knee Club members signed a manifesto against any change in the old knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started up and she had to run a block before the bus stopped and she was freed...
Despite all this todo, polls showed that, though a majority of U.S. women disliked the new styles, all but a handful planned to wear them. Oldsters recalled that there had been a furor, too, over the hobble skirt of the early 1900s and the above-the-knee skirt of the '20s, yet fashion had prevailed...
...chintz dressing room, Margaret put on her own makeup, straightened the folds in her voluminous white chiffon skirt. She was calm and confident. She had a master of orchestral accompaniment in balding Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and he had rehearsed her carefully...
...headily perfumed world of fashion, whose journals are both arbiters and court reporters, has its own definition of news: the New Look. This time, for a change, it was really new, from round shoulders to sucked-in (or laced-in) waist to long skirt (see NATIONAL AFFAIR...
Guide Hunt. The standard anthropological procedure for making friends with offish primitives, Holder explains, is to skirt their territory looking for an "acultural individual"-i.e., a person from outside who has learned their primitive ways, or a primitive who has deserted to civilization. He can teach you the language, and is often eager to introduce you to his reluctant friends (it makes him look...