Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cardin included in his show a strapless black outfit with a satin belt, while Guy Laroche took off with a multicolor batwing evening dress. From Lanvin came a sheer-topped gown with delicate pastel embroidery, and from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear...
...tuxedo suit with the short Spencer jacket dominated the collection. Shown with cuffed slacks or over a narrow skirt, the jacket was matched with sexy blouses, narrow-brim straw hats and a variety of ties. Once noted for the austere tailoring of his classic pantsuits, Saint Laurent has now softened his approach. His showstopper: a black satin tuxedo suit whose jacket was opened to expose a decorative strapless black lace...
...beat in Hollywood, but his subjects were presumably still tough: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood. "Covering illusion, I suspect, is going to be just as confusing as reporting reality," says Willwerth. Part of the confusion came from spending a few days with Reynolds. The flashy-flip, skirt-chasing, tire-burning macho hero of Semi-Tough, and a score of other cinematic excursions, proved to be a "semi-shy, urbane homebody." It turns out that the fast cars, wine and women are just an act on screen. Reynolds does drive a Rolls-Royce, but at the speed limit, and is going...
...shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing an older sister's hand-me-down dress and chewing tobacco to compensate for the skirt. "I come from a harder life than most characters I play," he explains with his customary simplicity, "and when I do movies I continue...
Although nobody expects America to return to the days of the hoop skirt, a number of experts do see signs that the wildest expressions of sexual "liberation" may be ending. "I think there's a shift back not toward conservatism but toward an end of sexuality for sexuality's sake," says Jack S. Boozer, professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta. "What you had in the '60s was like being thrown into a forest and told there was no infallible reference point, everything was equal. The person in that forest is just as culturally deprived...