Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conservative government in 1958, there are now 143 life peers ennobled for merit whose titles will die with them. One likely feature of Wilson's bill: hereditary dukes and barons will be allowed to keep their titles and pass them on to their heirs, but only men and women elevated for distinguished service will be able to vote in the House of Lords...
Donald Brooks is another designer who admits that he has "stripped the bikini down to the bare essentials"-gaily colored scraps of cloth in flowered or geometric patterns. Bill Blass keeps on turning out bikinis because he finds that women, for variety's sake, like a whole wardrobe of them. But the models must be updated. "A bikini has to be connected," he says, "to look appealing and provocative this season." Blass's answer is a chain that links bras to bottoms...
Even the relatively covered-up styles expose considerable areas of flesh, presenting many women with their annual moment of awful truth. "Next to going to a dentist, women most dread buying a bathing suit," says Ann Cole. Her calculated remedy: a new line of skin-colored suits embroidered with white flowers. The wearers look trim and nude -from a distance-while remaining covered and helpfully girdled. "It's sex and conservatism in one package," Miss Cole states. Another camouflage is a new version of that old favorite, the tunic, which hangs loosely to the hips and adds a touch...
...Most novel are "nudie" glasses, designed by London's Bernard Kayman. Their lenses are tinted at the top, to protect against the sun and replace missing eye makeup. They are clear at the bottom, permitting men to see the wearer's eyes. "Men hate to look at women with dark shades. After all, eyes are one of the things that men look at," explains Kayman. They are, to be sure, part of the total work. But on second thought, what good girl-watcher wants to know that he's being watched...
Real Society women tend to be tweedy-leathery, observes Birmingham -the leathery part being the texture of their perpetually tanned skin. "Hair is a blond mixture, streaked from the sun, of middle length, and is often caught at the back of the neck in a little net bag." Despite such allure, a man of Real Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery...