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Trickiest of the professionals are female shoplifters, known variously as "leggers," "knee huggers" and "crotch workers." Their technique consists of tucking stolen merchandise under their skirts and shuffling out of the store with the goods clutched between their thighs. By practicing at home with large telephone books, some have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tis the Season to Be Wary | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

The 36-page stencilled booklet warns "would-be studs" against girls wearing gold crosses, "the cursed circle pin," pleated plaid skirts, and dresses with high collars, all "worn almost exclusively by socially unenlightened girls, i.e., virgins."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want to Score? Seniors Tell How | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Change in Cultures. Nature is already giving way. Now some 30% completed or under construction, Belaunde's Marginal Highway-so called because it skirts the edge of the Amazon rain forest-is changing the lives of thousands of Andean Indians who have lived for centuries in hopeless poverty and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Regaining a Lost Habit | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Gernreich confronted the problem of the miniskirt head on. Tights may take care of modesty in the wintertime, believes Rudi, but for summer they are simply too hot. "Since skirts as such are really disappearing, they have to have a different look," he announced, and proceeded to prescribe either puffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Ostrich Skirts & Ruffled Bibs. It is a sign of the times that Gernreich's fondness for exposing the body raised no heckles. Just four years ago, when Gernreich won his first Coty Award, Norman Norell returned his Hall of Fame plaque because "it no longer has any meaning." Norell has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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