Word: velveteen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worse for the driver's safety is light reflected off the top of the dash board and back into the driver's eyes. Such reflections can be dangerously confusing Dr. Allen showed a photograph taken through the windshield of a car equipped with a light-absorbing black velveteen covering on its dashboard. A near by pedestrian was clearly visible. Another photo, taken after the velveteen was removed, glittered with reflections that hid the pedestrian from the driver...
...knee-length chiffon hostess models. So popular have dressy slacks become for evening entertaining that women guests are often trapped by a kind of fashion one-upwomanship: they wear dressy frocks and high heels for dinner parties, may be greeted by a hostess enviably svelte and comfortable in velveteen or brocade slacks and a beaded sweater...