Word: sleeveless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year 2000, women will be wearing only pants." There is one thing that men can do to retaliate: stop wearing pants themselves. Paris Couturier Pierre Cardin expects them to do just that. Last month, when he showed his new menswear collection, the first garment displayed was a sleeveless jumper designed to be worn over high vinyl boots. In other words, a dress...
...when Actress Daliah Lavi, 25, arrived at Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival, she was dressed for another part: that of a gal who had just come from mod, mod London. "Fashion is crazy," said Daliah, who was wearing a jaunty black Homburg, calf-high boots and a sleeveless coat over a white shirt and a mini skirt. "I had to join in like this because when I walk down the street in Lon don without fashion, nobody notices me." Nonsense...
...restrictions vary widely. The only rule at San Francisco's fashionable Shreve's jewelry store is a prohibition against sleeveless dresses on saleswomen. A Houston chemical company looks askance at fishnet hose and false eyelashes. At California Federal Savings & Loan, says one official dryly, "We don't care if a man wears a beard, just so long as he doesn't wear it into the office." Geico Insurance Co.'s Washington office frowns on culotte dresses, but refrains from formally banning them because they are often difficult to detect. Many companies, in fact, shy away...
...only one year ago that Scott Paper Co. introduced disposable duds as a promotion gimmick with a sleeveless shift selling for $1. It was so shapeless that it recalled a paper bag; scoffers put it down as just a paper gag. But for a country already accustomed to throw-away cups, plates, napkins and diapers, paper clothing seemed only a logical next step. Scott sold 500,000 dresses in eight months, and the strong response had other manufacturers and designers joining the paper chase...
Available next week throughout the U.S. for the easily disposed of price of $1 will be Scott Paper Co.'s easily disposable paper dress. Made of a flexible triple-ply, fire-resistant paper reinforced with rayon scrim, the dress is a sleeveless shift with two pockets, comes in four sizes and a choice of design-gay bandanna print or eye-arresting...