Word: turtlenecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADELE BRAGAR (on Mass. Ave above Radcliffe) is showing three no 'Cliffle can live without: the wrap around skirt, the cardigan sweater, and the turtleneck top. The skirt comes in cranberry red, loden green, and brown. Fashioned in rich narrow corduroy, it sports conveniently pockets and is priced at a sensible...
From the first, Gaslight Square attracted a fair share of mink coats along with turtleneck sweaters and black stockings. Then the latter took on a different look as proprietors required customers to wear coats and ties. Says one cabaret owner: "We give a buck's worth of booze for a buck. And no strolling, lonely chicks. Once you start letting that happen, you are in for trouble." Today, the Square has no strippers, no gyp joints, lots of good clean gaslit...
When one couple arrived--the boy attired in blue jeans and turtleneck sweater, the girl in black tights, skirt, and sweater--they were besieged by newsmen desperately looking for a story...
...Gloria (surname: Ziraldo), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did "chorus work" in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when "we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...
...threshold of the '20s and the new era of uncorseted freedom for women. The simple clothes Coco wanted to make were exactly what women were waiting for. She introduced the tricot sailor frock, the turtleneck sweater and the pullover, shortened skirts and heels for comfort, flattened chests to create a lithe, boyish look...