Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago, the woman with nothing to wear had a problem. Today, nothing is practically all she needs. With the new nude look in fashions, the flimsiest pretext of a dress will do-but only on a girl with a figure worth seeing through to and with nerve enough to let the world see through to it. If she has the right shape and attitude, she can get away with anything from a bra and gypsy waistcoat to a blouse woven wholly out of cobwebs. Guardians of morality may frown in disfavor, girl friends may shriek in outrage and envy...
...gone throughout history, from Eden to Egypt to Greece, to Rome, to France, to the U.S. today. The current manifestation began in 1964 when Designer Rudi Gernreich produced his infamous topless bathing suit. The Kremlin and the Vatican denounced it; most American women were completely unprepared (or unequipped) to wear it. In defense, Gernreich explained his purpose: "By exaggerating a new freedom of the body now, I hope to make the moderate, right degree of freedom more acceptable in the future." Yves St. Laurent seconded the motion two years later with his show-and-tell dresses. With body stockings available...
Paraphernalia's Guy Paulin is more socially demanding; in his clothes, he wants to see a girl "of typical good family, a little hollow-chested. She can wear a slightly vulgar dress since she exhales good family through every pore of her body." For Designer Leo Narducci, it is not so much a specific size or class of woman who can wear his clothes as it is a certain type, one who "is sure of herself, who thinks of sex more openly. If a guy isn't agreeable to her, she'll find someone else...
Just as the ladies who wear them must be the right shape, so must nude fashions be worn at the right time and place. None of the outfits will do for an evening at the opera, not even backstage, nor are they likely to show up at a restaurant or on the crosstown bus. The idea is not to shock the general public but to dress with taste among friends -at intime dinners and small cocktail parties-in clothes that do not fudge the fact that the wearer is a woman, but leave a certain something to the imagination...
Transparent and Purple. "Mystery is the important thing," says Ethel Scull, Pop-art patron and wife of the owner of a fleet of New York City taxicabs. "I'll never, never wear a see-through without a body stocking," she insists, remembering the passing pedestrian who had one look through her first one before "his glasses fell off." Model Penelope Tree substitutes a satin bra for the body stocking, refusing to go without anything. "It's hard enough getting people to pay attention to what you're saying," she says, "without focusing their attention on your bosom...