Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midi skirt is ungainly, unflattering and unwarranted. But it is nonetheless a fashion fact. Rebellious consumers have raised voices, but the hemlines have stayed down: the fall collections include hardly a mini. Still, the new lengths offer compensations, sometimes by baring the bosom, often-in a sudden, gratuitous flash-by revealing the upper thigh. Zippers and buttons, snaps and laces-all open a variety of ways designed to persuade girls, and girl watchers, that all is not lost...
...concealed by the material that the slash appears as if by magic and not by the mechanical gnashings of a hundred metal teeth. To ensure greater visibility, Klein styles feature side closings, and those that do not ride low on the hips lace like a corset above the waist. Skirt Designer Stella Sloat shows a few wraparound midis ("for a little exposure while walking"); otherwise, like Designer Luba, she sticks to buttons down the front or just plain slashes at the center or sides...
Chester Weinberg zippers one sweater dress straight up the middle, slashes a velvet version well above the knees, and matches a short suede battle jacket to a "hula skirt" made entirely of strips of suede. Pierre Cardin's ready-to-wear collection stars a three-toned jersey midi slit in front and back, and others slashed into inverted U's or petal shapes...
From the moment French President Georges Pompidou stepped onto the White House lawn, everyone looked downward, not in deference to protocol, but to see what length skirt his wife was wearing. For the rest of the week, even in politically oriented Washington, much of the conversation about the state visit centered on Mme. Pompidou's hemlines (she changed as often as four times a day), most of which came to within six inches of the ground...
...blue skirt...