Word: toplessness
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...Rudi Gernreich was the first to snatch the idea off the rack and get it on the market (TIME, June 26), the evidence presented at the fall fashion collections in Florence last week showed that the Italians were not prepared to let the U.S. run off with the topless suit honors...
...topless suit? With a shrug and a yawn, Pucci turned gentleman and traitor, offered women wary of fads or of catching a cold, a grand way to cover up. It is a one-piece coverall outfit that fastens down the front, has to be stepped into, and is so difficult to get out of that the sun is bound to go down before it does, leaving a beachful of spectators ogling in the dark...
...Anglican clergymen, High and Low, felt that the vestments issue had been blown up beyond proportion. Canterbury himself said: "In some churches, I wear no more than a black scarf"-leading Punch to take gleeful note that the archbishop had also called for understanding and forbearance for wearers of topless bathing suits. The Rev. Nicolas Stacey, rector of Woolwich, strongly deplored the concern with trivialities. "Our work is hopelessly undermined when our fellow churchmen, claiming to speak in the name of Christ, make issues about clerical vesture. It confirms people's suspicion that when the crunch comes, the church...
Beaming attendants swarmed all over the car that pulled into a Norwich, Conn., gas station. Battery checked? Oil? Windshield wiped? And wiped. And wiped. And wiped. Seems the young lady driver had on one of those new topless swimsuits, and while Yo-Yos and Hula-Hoops were fine for kids, this year's midsummer madness does absolutely nothing to weed the men from the boys. Policemen, politicians, churchmen all had their views, from the Tel Aviv cop who swore that "no nice Israeli girl would wear them" (25 suits had just hopped off local store racks) to Acapulco...
...discriminating eye, in a flair for fabric and a sense of color, in a subtle bit of seamwork, an intricate set of pleats, a bead, a button, some spangles, a feather. Norell is neither set in his ways, like Mainbocher, nor out to amaze like Rudi Gernreich (of the topless-suit Gernreichs). He is a fashion moderate in step with the day, inventive but practical, inspired but patient. His virtues have paid off in a long line of fashion hits: the evening shirtwaist, the empire look, the chemise, the wool evening dress, the sequined sheath and culottes...