Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morocco Inspired. Yves Saint Laurent celebrated détente with a Russian look: three-quarter-length suede coats bordered in mink, worn over a sum velvet skirt and a printed cossack blouse in crepe de Chine, all topped by a huge matching mink toque. Another Y.S.L. standout was a silk poplin pelisse lined and trimmed in fisher, over a tweed suit with a tweedy patterned crepe de Chine blouse. For evening he had many floating mousselines, including several djellabas that were probably inspired by Saint Laurent's trips to Morocco, where he has a house...
...construction, and the tops and sleeves fit like skin." Indeed, a few of his slinky evening clothes mold the body almost as closely as Cardin's, but with greater subtlety. Givenchy's basic sweater dresses hug the body to the hipline, then end in a shirred skirt; many have turtlenecks, which he finds "much more today" than decolletés. Among the last to design trousers, Givenchy showed pants superbly tailored in fine wools, gabardine and jerseys. To accentuate his sporty look, always popular with Americans, Givenchy accompanied his showing with jazzy music from such trans-atlantic productions...
...miniskirts have been condemned as vestiges of the defeated capitalist society. Young men have been pressured to trim their long hair, while girls have been urged to wear "clothes that are simple and not stimulating." As a result, more Saigon women these days are wearing the traditional slit-skirt ao-dai, which, ironically, many Westerners regarded as extremely stimulating indeed...
...Boehm, farmhouses by Wyeth, Wedgwood heads of Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent, and so on-have become the back-up currency of the overheated U.S. economy. Another complication is that Athena, Apollo, that bisexual twit Hermes, and Zeus, 42 ft. tall but disguised, more or less, as a skirt-chasing municipal court judge, have settled in above a Greek restaurant on 18th Street, hoping to get some of the action...
...another photograph we see a woman, dressed in an old-fashioned skirt and blouse, staring off to the right at something beyond our vision. She is standing next to an old stone bird bath, and the ground around her is strewn with dead leaves. This image is superimposed on a broken pane of glass whose pieces form a jagged jigsaw puzzle. The glass is at once a mirror and a window; whether we see an illusion or reality is left as enigma, as is the identity of the woman and the meaning of the scene...