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...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. There was just no more silk for stockings...
...Kulturny, For the prospective traveler in the U.S.S.R. Levine supplies a cautionary list of what is ne kulturny (not cultured). Russians frown on low-cut dresses and stockingless legs, and scorn women who wear hats or coats in restaurants. Men should never put their feet on desks or cross their legs or keep their hands in their pants pockets. To whistle in public will cause cries of "Ne kulturny but Russians think nothing of shoving and elbowing their way through crowds or of using their fingers to tear off bits of meat at the table...
...young president of Sarah Lawrence College (for bluestocking young ladies-usually stockingless) is Harold Taylor, 33. His youth has never stopped him from sounding off to his elders. A month ago, he leveled at the Great Books program for concentrating too much on dead letters. Last week, at New York's twelfth annual Educational Conference, he berated the whole U.S. educational system. Said he: "[It] has become one massive quiz program, with the prizes and the honors going to the most . . . repulsively well-informed persons. The man with his hand up first wins the scholarship, is asked to make...
Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing." Said one of Sobolev's characters, a Red Army man, drawing on his experience: "Probably not enough material to finish the shoes." Said his witty comrade: "No, the Rumanians have a tradition of showing their heels in war." "The women," Sobolev conceded, "are handsome in a standardized way, with carefully made-up faces smoothly pale in spite of the burning sun, with hairdos which are a little too artful and with striking dark red pouting lips - the fashion seems...
...York City Health Department will soon investigate reports that athlete's foot is being spread in stores now that more & more women are appearing stockingless to try on shoes. Many shoe dealers are already distressed about the problem, but dare not ask their customers to put on socks before trying on shoes...