Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in severe white dresses cut three inches above the knee and white, mid-calf boots open at the toe. The highflying hem was born. The French Vogue and Elle devoted so much space to Courrèges that Coco Chanel took offense, threatened leading French fabric houses that if they bought ads in the magazines, she would "never buy another centimeter of cloth." Stormed she: "They showed Courr...
Buckles and Bows. The shoemakers have focused on the male desire to look young and rugged. In men's shoes, the pinched, pointed-toe "Italian look" is out; it has been replaced by broader toes, bolder stitching, longer wing tips and plentiful perforations. Shoemakers have succeeded so well in selling men on the casual look that sales of sneakers, sandals and moccasins are expected to equal those of regular shoes this year. The industry has also brought out dozens of suède-and cloth-topped models with such names as Floaters, Renegades, Tweedies, and Lazy Bones...
...told police, "after a while I became sleepy." Across the compartment Truoc Nguyen Huu, a well-to-do Vietnamese businessman who had spent half of his 45 years in France, removed his shoes and socks. "When I woke up," Huguette told police, "I found my fellow traveler's toe in my left hand. I moved my hand at once. Then I seemed to go off to sleep again, and when I came to I discovered that man's toes in my mouth." That, of course, was only the beginning...
...many female passengers on the St.-Gervais express to whom Huu was similarly attentive. For a year Huu was a regular weekend commuter on the train. Half a dozen women lodged complaints at various French police stations, but the police did not take them seriously, and Huu remained toe-loose and fancy-free. The end came with a statuesque 23-year-old divorcee named Simone Boullin. Chocolates, toes, seduction-and poor Simone had ridden past her stop. Instead of disappearing, as was his practice, Huu gallantly accompanied her to a hotel room in Le Fayet to comfort her while...
Last week in the grey stone courthouse at nearby Bonneville, Huu was found guilty of "outraging public decency" and "administering substances dangerous to the health." Sentence: ten months-one for each toe. When he gets out, remarked Defense Attorney Joseph Faletti cheerfully, he should have no trouble at all finding a job: "Monsieur Huu is a very bright man, a very mysterious one. He will make a fine candidate for Premier of South Viet...