Word: miniskirts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Designer Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt...
...opposite direction. In India last week Topic A was a lip-smacking debate on the issue of on-screen kissing. South Viet Nam's government has closed down three publications this year for overly explicit descriptions of sex, and Taiwan police have arrested 763 long-haired boys and miniskirted girls since January for offending public decency. Thai officials have damned the miniskirt, and Malaysia's minister of education has ordered students "not to become slaves to Western fashion...
...youth exulting in the pleasures of the flesh and his later years exalting the spirit. More immediate was the puritanical impact of the Moslems, whose Mogul empire controlled the subcontinent from 1526 until the early 1700s. The confusion in attitudes persists; while most Indian women haughtily reject the ubiquitous miniskirt, the partygoing younger ones have adopted the "hipster sari." The bottom portion is tied low enough to expose a generous expanse of the upper derrière, while the top, or choli, has been reduced to startlingly provocative dimensions...
...Long and Short. The miniskirt has caught on all-embracingly in Saigon and Bangkok, despite official censure. To avoid police harassment, Saigon prostitutes trip along downtown streets wearing ankle-length raincoats over their minis. In Bangkok, short skirts are criticized primarily as a symbol of the increasingly resented U.S. presence. Teachers, for example, have been told to stop wearing miniskirts because they are "an example of poor Western culture." Nonetheless, Princess Ubol Ra-tana, the King's oldest daughter, sports a mini while shopping in Bangkok's boutiques. Thailand, for all its resentment of Western variations of permissiveness...
...situation by his absence. He will visit the U.S. next month, presumably to counteract Bernadette. At week's end a two-man Protestant "truth squad" arrived in New York for the same purpose and got off to a flying start by describing Bernadette as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt." The truth squad was also expected to emphasize Bernadette's lackluster performance as one of Ulster's twelve representatives at Westminster; since her election last April, she has turned up for very few sessions. What is more, Kenneth Lewis, a Tory M.P., suggests that Bernadette may have violated...