Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Germany's three big fashion shows, just concluded, not only displayed the smart ready-to-wear clothes that have helped put chic into German life; they were also an eye-popping showcase for the girls themselves. Since more than 1,000 models are needed for each of the big shows in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, more than half of them are recruited from offices, universities, cafe society-and it is becoming more and more difficult to tell the amateur beauties from the pros...
Murderers and motorcyclists are so mad about gloves that they wear them the whole year round. Others, less smitten, don them only in the winter, for warmth, or on the job (doormen, surgeons, morticians, ushers), to impress a boss (secretarial applicants who cannot type), keep up appearances (debutantes and chauffeurs), curry favor (prospective brides brought home to tea with prospective mothers-in-law). Once considered standard everyday attire, and the only way to get a decent duel going, nowadays no one but a grandmother likes to wear gloves...
Some women do not bother to wear gloves at all, merely keep them in hand, and make the rounds clasping the evidence of their well-bred intentions like a badge. After several such wearings, most gloves begin to go limp, soon acquire wrinkles and creases no cleaner can cure. One Way Out. But, astonishingly enough, there is hardly a woman who would be caught dead without gloves. Why? Largely because of etiquette. Even as "bold" and "modern" a social arbiter as Amy Vanderbilt, who last year went so far as to sometimes permit picking up chicken bones by hand...
...students wear them properly, there shouldn't be any problem," he said. Only a small percentage of cases involved poorly-made lenses or lenses that did not fit properly...
...Love. In its attempt to modernize, the Klan organizes registration drives and car pools to put whites on voting rolls, permits members to wear civvies at rallies. A major offshoot in Georgia, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, uses recordings narrated by former Network Radio Announcer Wally Butterworth to spread its pitch. Kluxers near Natchez, Miss., dropped recruiting leaflets from an airplane. Shelton himself uses a car radiotelephone to communicate with his henchmen...