Word: toreadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from pinball machines and burlesque shows to air conditioning and free thought. Patterning themselves on a sensational, bestselling novel that dealt mainly with free love, many of the postwar generation reveled in the name of the "sun-tribe people," traded in their kimonos for blue denims, flared jackets, skintight toreador pants. In the newly coeducational colleges, pony-tailed coeds and their boy friends claimed the right to experiment with trial marriages. On mountain trails near Karuizawa and in the beach shacks on the Izu shore, schoolboys and girls were found sleeping together. To their horrified elders, the new mambo-garu...
Velvet tapered slacks are doing the legwork for the season, with black, red and cobalt blue the leading colors. Also popular are wool, cordoroy, cotton and dacron, and even silk fabrics in slack and toreador pants. Tweeds, stripes, and patterns complete with solids for space on the sportswear racks in the Boston area stores...
...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...
...direction they could respect. From the Americans they took only the easy externals. Their uniform is as standard as that of a geisha: the "Shintaro" crew cut and aloha sports shirts for the men, with loose-flowing Byronic shirts, zoot coats and pointed suede shoes for city wear; toreador pants for the girls with hair cut like a mop and often dyed red; and over all, an attitude of abandonment and deep to-hell-with-it cynicism...