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The miniskirt in London had already risen as high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much...
Year after year, the Radcliffe Redbook informs Cliffies that "skirts and dresses must be worn to classes." But inquiries yesterday showed that no one knows who made the rule originally, why it was made, or how it is supposed to be enforced.
Changes Beyond Belief. Those women who own them now swear by them. Their appeal is based, first of all, on comfort. Short skirts have made even knee crossing an ordeal; pants allow lounging any old way. Nancy Sinatra, who owns half a dozen pants suits, thinks they are ideal for...
-Greying, distinguished Norman Norell, 66, is today the dean of U.S. designers. As an apprentice, he designed costumes for Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Today his Manhattan collections still retain much of the sleek, stark, flamboyant yet functional modernity that was characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and...
Barbers were warned not to give Western-style cuts, and Peking girls rushed home to wash the Western-style curls out of their hair and change from knee-length skirts into shapeless "revolutionary" pantaloons. The use of pedicabs was barred unless the customer was willing to pull the cab himself...