Word: straps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shoulder Models. Generally, U.S. sales of handbags for men are limited to stores on both the coasts. In California, 'both I. Magnin's and Saks Fifth Avenue offer a variety of styles, ranging from a heavy vinyl satchel ($17.50) to Vuitton's convertible shoulder-strap model ($125). Gucci, credited with starting the fad two years ago in Italy, shows two shoulder models in leather and canvas (Actor Marcello Mastroianni wears his with matching pants), along with the favorite clutch bag, a steal at $69. Furrier Jacques Kaplan has a dressier number, in fur with outside pockets...
...wear glasses, have a strap for them, and carry an extra pair." Contrary to liberated fashions, "women should wear bras, men jock straps or cups." Earrings are out, since they may be torn off in a scuffle...
...Japanese use acid sprays to disintegrate trouser pockets. They're experts at removing tourists' cameras: just lift gently and slash the strap...
...York Times recently ran a movie ad for The Libertine showing the back of a girl, bare except for panties. The Daily News ran the same ad for one edition - but then sloppily sketched in a bra strap. Apparently, even the notion that the girl might be bare-chested was too much for the News censor...
Century At Arizona's Prescott College, fresh man orientation is a trifle more strenuous than listening to a series of welcome speeches. Instead, incoming students, both male and female, strap on 40-lb packs and spend three weeks hiking through dry, bramble-strewn canyons and scrambling down 165-ft. cliffs; for three days, they must live on their own, surviving on nothing but water. In addition, they paddle kayaks and canoes for 95 miles around a wind-chopped lake, struggling to keep afloat during cloudbursts and camping overnight on the rocky shore...