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. . . The other designers must realize in the near future that they have been designing masquerade fashions for the smallest part of our population, the idle rich, who step from home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War...
"Some bands are content to play an accompaniment to a chorus line," said Skinner, adding that his group will continue to rest its reputation on the music it plays. The only skirts will be on bagpiper Leigh Cross '51.
As Luey Manuellian, Radcliffe '50, put it: "I'm all for skirts that stop very little below the knee, but I don't think you can change style by joining a club. The clothes are already manufactured and they're going to be bought."
"In long skirts, short girls look lost and tall girls looks like beanpoles," said Dierdre O'Brien, Radcliffe '50.
Speaking as a 1947 guest editor of Mademoiselle, women's fashion magazine. Marry Lou Buckley, Radcliffe, '49, thinks that a moderate length will be adopted by college girls. "Thirteen or 14 inches from the ground is quite enough for daytime wear," she said. "Tall girls will discover that skirts well...