Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flamboyant knee socks have been on sale for several years, but are now "in" as never before. The socks' success owes much to the recession, which has curbed clothing budgets; instead of buying a skirt, for example, many women are settling for snappy socks...
...What magazine recently advised people to buy stocks because "stock prices have gone up when the skirt lengths have shortened--and vice versa...
...Women in the sciences have long complained justifiably of a "skirt differential." That is, they have been paid less than men even when they have held comparable jobs. Now that differential may be changing in the women's favor. In a recent survey, the American Chemical Society found that newly graduated women chemists and chemical engineers are being paid on average 5% more than male graduates. A decade ago, women entering chemistry were earning only 86% as much as their male counterparts. The society says that the turnabout is probably the result of more intensive bidding by employers...
...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...like my kick pleat skirt...