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The greatest social hazard for a Horace Mann student is being different. Clothes are particularly conformist and fadish. To school the girls wear skirts and blouses or sweaters, and whatever type of shoes is the rage that year. Boys wear sport shirts or sweaters and "drapes"--slightly tapered, flannel slacks...
On a spring day Koreans, who believe in dressing up to vote, went to the polls 8,500,000 strong, the men in baggy white pantaloons and high black horsehair hats, the women in gay skirts and blouses. Minor rural attempts at voter intimidation were reported, but the freedom of...
Cold Turkey. "About the only sure way to stop this stuff is to set your store up in a nudist colony," said a Seattle superman, by now suspicious of just about any housewife who carries a big handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a...
Instead of a plain, almond-shaped sack, designers are moving the hemline up, the neckline down, taking in waists, adding pleats, ruffles, tapered skirts, brighter colors all around. And for each new style, there is a new name: side-draped "toga coats" by Jacques Griffe; the slope-shouldered "Sling Drape...
What attracts them is the same lure that brings steady crowds of tourists and local fans to the De Luxe Bocce Ball Court, a none-too-plush bar in San Francisco's Italian district: operatic arias and duets, spiritedly and sometimes expertly sung. Most performers are part-time professionals...