Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Girls. She looked something like the late Mrs. Lurleen Wallace; that is to say, she was trim, pretty, and hid a faint smile. Gladys Roberts was wearing a styrofoam boater with Wallace stickers pasted on it, a red, white, and blue-striped blazer, a white blouse, a navy blue skirt, stockings, and loafers. She also carried a cardboard painter's bucket...
Should a nun be allowed to kick her religious habit and appear publicly in skirt and blouse? Yes, decided Los Angeles' progressive-minded Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who last fall made a number of reforms in their way of life, including the right to wear civilian dress. Although other Roman Catholic orders have modified or dropped their habits without any trouble, none of the changes seemed to please Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. He threatened to dismiss the sisters from their teaching posts in parochial schools of his archdiocese. The nuns promptly appealed...
Although her dark blue Eastern Airlines uniform skirt reached down to the top of her knee, and she was loaded with make-up, the stewardess on the way down to New York was exceptionally good for conversation. She argued with the middle-aged male adult in front of me about the virtues of marijuana and sighed knowingly when he said he was a buyer for a large hardware store chain for a living. She had seen The Graduate, and liked it yes, but had not mistaken Dustin Hoffman's naturally pinched voice with a well-developed acting technique...
...That prissy wrap-up about see-through blouses "dulling the senses" [April 19] seems vaguely familiar. Hasn't that same broken record been grinding away ever since legs first emerged from the hobble skirt? In the time from flapper fringe to miniskirt, legs may indeed have lost their shock value, but a well-turned leg still turns heads. What short skirts have done for the leg man, see-through blouses may yet do for the more high-minded girl watcher...
...disenchanted Cultural Guardian Joseph Wood Krutch, 74, in the American Scholar. Take Twiggy, for example-"a fashion sensation because all the secondary sexual characteristics of the female were totally lacking." And the Twig is only part of the pattern, Krutch said. "The miniskirt is halfway to becoming a non-skirt. When it has reached its entelechy and is then designed to accompany a topless blouse, the anti-costume will be complete and just right for the non-woman reading anti-novels, looking at nonrepresentational pictures, and listening to atonal music...