Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impetus comes from the exotic costumes dreamed up by youth, and the watchword is "Do your own thing." The situation has traditional designers up tight. Old standard setters, like Balenciaga, have retired. Others, like Saint Laurent, reach for youth by focusing increasingly on less expensive ready-to-wear clothes. At 46, fatigued by the efforts that have kept him far ahead of other designers, Rudi Gernreich last week announced that he was taking a year off in order to refresh himself. Says Gernreich, who championed the new attitude all along: "I feel that a woman must buy the basics from...
...been her hallmark ever since. Though Luba, who won a Coty Award for her designs last month, does not pretend that she invented pants, no designer has worked with them more skillfully. As an ex-dancer, she likes their freedom. But she also likes variety: "No reason not to wear pants one day, a short skirt the next, a long one the following day." In her fall collection, Luba has pants with a tunic top. "If you get too hot," she explains to customers, "go to the ladies' room, remove the pants, and you emerge in tunic and tights...
Uniformed Individuality. To Designer Edie Gladstone, the trend means the end of the "investment dress," which costs so much that a woman feels she has to wear it repeatedly to justify the outlay. To TV Actress Kathryn Leigh Scott, 23, it means making her own clothes and rummaging through thrift shops for old materials and accessories. Fashion Writer Caterine Milinaire, 25, one of Manhattan's most creative dressers, is also a scavenger; her costume for a recent charity ball consisted of an old, loose-fitting Israeli dress that she picked up in London. "I guess I looked funny...
...Silvester, who only a month before had broken the world mark with a prodigious heave of 224 ft. 5 in. Oerter defeated them all, despite the fact that ever since 1963 he has been suffering from a slipped cervical disc that causes him agony and forces him to wear a surgical collar when he competes. In the Olympics, however, he takes the collar off. "These are the Olympics," he explains. "You die for them...
...balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...