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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Courage of Courr | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Courage of Courr | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Never Above the Thigh. Of course, 27-year-old Mary is more than just a looker. She is toothily, totally wholesome, with an unexpected comedy accent on the ho, can convincingly range from point-winning wit to pratfalling clown. For her labors on the Van Dyke show she recently collected the Foreign Press Golden Globe Award as the best female television personality of this year. She got an Emmy last year for the same thing. The program has consistently been in the top 15 since 1962, ranks seventh so far this year. And Mary has just recently signed a seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Succeed Though Married | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...dancing in a Hotpoint stove ad. Then she got a job answering the phone for Richard Diamond, private eye. No one who saw her in the part will ever forget her, though he could not possibly remember her face. As sultry-voiced Sam, she was never seen above the thigh. And that shortskirted gam bit got her an audition for the part of Danny Thomas' daughter. She missed, but when Producer Thomas was looking for a wife for Van Dyke the next year, he remembered her. How come he hadn't chosen her the first time? "Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Succeed Though Married | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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