Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual Magazine Awards given jointly by the J. C. Penney Co. and the University of Missouri. The panel awarded a $1,000 prize in the fashion and beauty category to stylish Stout-Heiress Gloria Guinness, 53, for her article in the June 1966 Bazaar deploring the "short, short, short skirt" as "that crazy young look that took over with the rapidity of a plague." La Guinness, a best-dressed, quarterly contributor to the magazine, gave the $1,000 back as a donation for needy students and added her modest judgment of ladies' magazine prose: "That kind of writing comes...
...canvass for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, I got the shortest haircut I have had since high school and my sister took her longest skirt out of mothballs. These were not exactly sacrifices for the cause, but they were concessions, and we half-expected some concessions in return from the voters of Cambridge. We wanted them to listen...
like a glorious diver then feet first her skirt stripped beautifully...
...buyers are especially proud of a St. Laurent daytime dress of cream-beige crepe with a subdued use of beads. It is, says one, "the Ford of our collection"-something everyone will want. Also interesting: a Patou white worsted dress that is close to the body, with a flared skirt and four rows of horizontal stitching; it is considered the best trend indicator. "It's the princess line all over again," says a buyer. Like Ohrbach's, Alexander's was active in the Italian mar ket too. It will display a stunning brown wool trench coat...
Though dress and skirt lengths are any woman's guess this year, there are definite trends, not only to belts, but in the attention paid to the waist, and in the overall softness of fit, particularly in skirts. Says Alexander's Lorrie Eyerly: "This year's styles are soft but still architectural. Instead of boxy little shapes a la Courreges, the skirts are flared. Suits and the waist are really back. And we see the princess silhouette as the most important line coming out of Paris...