Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discothèques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have stocking to cover, and American males are scrambling for the best vantage point...
Ridiculous or not, knees and the lower thigh are now in the public eye. For still supple gamines who can toss off a handstand or a cartwheel, the new look will fit like an old glove. But for those who cannot resist layer cake and ice cream, Courrèges may take more courage than they...
...kinky-"meaning nonconformist"-stockings [March 19]. With all due respect for royalty, this is a bowdlerized version. "Kinky" is a postwar British colloquialism meaning "with or appealing to unconventional sexual tastes, especially fetishism." It is widely applied to articles of feminine attire in black leather-e.g., knee-or thigh-length boots-and, more recently, to fancy stockings...
Early in the war, Lieut. Moorer and a seven-man crew were flying a PBY-5 reconnaissance mission out of Port Dar win, Australia, when they were attacked by Japanese Zeros. Wounded in the thigh, his plane riddled and burning, Moorer set the plane down in the sea and climbed into a raft with...
...York State Journal of Medicine, was a secretary, only 20, who seemed to be in the best of health except for that one complaint. And on vacation, when she was active on the beach all day, the swelling never appeared. Eventually a doctor noted a line around each thigh-about where he figured a round garter would have been in the Gay Nineties. His suspicions aroused, the doctor asked about her girdle. It proved to be the "panty type-that is, each thigh was completely encircled with elastic material." The same was true of another woman, aged 52, in whose...