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Floppy hats, furs and knee-high boots (for both dresses and knickers) were frequent accessories. To drape over the dresses, designers introduced large, loose, shapeless coats and capes ranging from cardigan-small to something approaching a wraparound bedspread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Loose Look | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

WHEN WE got back to the trailer, Patty said baby Sarah needed some milk and eggs and could we go to the store? I offered to take my car, but Kenny said naw, we'd go on the motorcycle. He handed me a Bell crash helmet with a wraparound visor and we went out behind the trailer. "I came within a gnat's ass of bein' a road racer a while back," said Kenny. "But you begin to look at things a little different when you got a wife and kid to support...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...each year looked on. Like pilgrims at a shrine, they inspected the last remnants of Papa Petty's old reaper shed and then repaired to a souvenir stand where they stocked up on Petty postcards, Petty T shirts, Petty racing jackets and Petty plaques. King Richard himself, wearing wraparound sunglasses and stroking his new Fu Manchu mustache, put in an appearance. Why, someone asked, had he bothered to compete in the North Wilkesboro race, a relatively minor event that some drivers bypassed because of the middling $4,730 winner's purse? "If there is something going on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Road II | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Trying hard to seem casual, the first man offered the joint. The second smiled gratefully and accepted. He took a slow drag and passed it back. They studied each other. Both had bushy hair, full sideburns and city complexions with heavy shadow. Both wore those wraparound tinted eyeglasses that look like the windshield of a small Italian sports car. Both, despite some attempts at careful grooming, looked?well, sort of dumpy. They were wearing chinos, sneakers without socks and knit shirts on which even the tiny Lacoste alligators seemed ill at ease and vaguely apprehensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...appears as if by magic and not by the mechanical gnashings of a hundred metal teeth. To ensure greater visibility, Klein styles feature side closings, and those that do not ride low on the hips lace like a corset above the waist. Skirt Designer Stella Sloat shows a few wraparound midis ("for a little exposure while walking"); otherwise, like Designer Luba, she sticks to buttons down the front or just plain slashes at the center or sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Midi's Compensations | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

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