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...American costumes scattered among the European extravaganzas make clear how unsophisticated this country has been in the world of fashion. A visiting costume of printed challis is charming in its simplicity, but the next mannequin is weighted down with white brocaded taffeta and swamped under a skirt of orange tufts of tulle and lace rosettes...
Gone: The Short-Skirt Bit. The old apple has to be polished a little more discreetly than it once was. The sweet Southern thing who sighs, "Ah'll do anything to get a good grade," is now likely to be told: "Try studying." Symbolic of the times, a Michigan State professor last year ruined the short-skirt bit by ordering all coeds to the back of the room. "I don't let myself get close to any student," says a grim Houston professor. "I try to look at all of them as enemies...
...father recently. He spent a lot of money on me, and it's only natural that I should help him out." Such gems now sparkle all over the French press, nicely complemented by pictures of La Fonda in her man's-shirt peejays or high-riding skirt or skin-clinger slacks. It all suggested the supreme accolade, and she has been duly dubbed la B.B. Américaine...
Habitually resplendent in a natty wool jacket, skirt and beaded cap, the paramount chief spends most of his time quaffing Simba beer and palm wine, the latter poured for him from a blue enamel teapot...
...Inter-Parliamentary Union conference, South Viet Nam's éminence brune announced cheerfully that the real aim of her travels was to "disperse all misunderstandings " about her country and the regime headed by her brother-in-law, Ngo Dinh Diem. Sounding like St. Joan in a slit skirt, Viet Nam's fiery First Lady announced that she and her doe-eyed, 17-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, would carry the crusade to the U.S. where she said she would "reeducate Americans" from coast to coast. Sample Nhuances...