Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something shocking, as Cole Porter noted. But now, God knows, anything goes. And now what's going is a new wrinkle in hose credited by some fashion experts to Ralph Lauren. In magazine ads, Lauren's young line, called Ralph, features a model straddling a chair. She wears a skirt about the length of a large handkerchief, and her stockings, such as they are, reach only to her thighs. Thus is born a fad. The stockings are called thigh-highs and a lot of women are making a run on them...
Women also need the nerve to wear only a hint of a skirt to make thigh-highs work; others need not apply. The question that remains, however, is whether this trend has legs. So far, the answer is yes, though some customers are cautious. Louise Voelker, 26, a San Francisco sales representative, owns three pairs of thigh-highs and wears them to the office. But she also wears skirts that cover her thighs, so nobody's the wiser. "The world sees me in one way," she explains, "and I know I'm wearing thigh-highs. Wouldn't they be shocked...
Furthermore, Carter's recent activity compromises the ability of the State Department to conduct official U.S. diplomacy. A foreign government is increasingly liable--and correct--to believe that we will skirt official diplomatic channels for this new breed of improvisational diplomacy. When you go to the opera, after all, you don't expect to hear karaoke...
...outside income while in the post. Villalpando, who pleaded guilty earlier this year, was contrite and -- voice breaking -- begged in vain for community service instead of jail. BTW: Villalpando caused a stir at the GOP convention in '92 by calling Bill Clinton and current U.S. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros "skirt chasers." The Bush White House made her apologize...
...greatest casualty is soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...