Word: corset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garment trade hopes to concentrate on fewer styles, and counts on mass production to hold prices down. There will be more of the basic models-nubby coats, colorful wool knits and fur-trimmed garments. Dresses are being made with jackets for double duty, the jacket removable for evening. Corset and other foundation-garment makers have cut the number of styles by a third, yet have managed to bring out a new assortment suitable even for bikini wearers. In June bridal gowns, the train that so often required the help of small brothers has been replaced by a nononsense, efficiency ballerina...
Squeeze Play. In Stockton, Calif., the Industrial Accident Commission awarded Women's Wear Clerk Betty Owens $1,000 for a back injury suffered while squeezing a 250-lb. customer into a corset...
...Exporters. In 1947, spurred on by the Attlee government's Town and Country Planning Act, local authorities throughout Britain began to corset the nation's expanding cities with "green belts"-strips of unspoiled country in which no new housing or industrial construction is permitted. More drastic yet, the cities themselves began organized relocation of their citizens, either to smaller cities eager for labor and industry or to the "new towns"-self-contained communities complete with factories, such as Stevenage (pop. 30,000), which were thrown up by the planners' decrees. So far, 420,000 Britons have been...