Word: navel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrates what he means with cutout suits that will have men looking at places that never seemed interesting before. Some designers were exploiting the possibilities of netting, which coyly shams at concealing what it clearly reveals. "The back is sexually important, while the exposed navel is no longer news," proclaims Designer Bill Blass, whose backless halter for Roxanne is the halter of the season...
...round-shouldered girl; unless she keeps chest out and shoulders back, she may be left with nothing but a snorkel above the waist. As for the navel, Blass has taken inspiration from Mondrian to produce a white bikini banded in black and joined top to bottom by a single black band that covers the navel yet somehow makes the stomach seem even barer...
...jeans. You disgust me, said Adele. Willie tied her wrists to the top bars of the iron bed and lifted her skirt. He felt faint. He glanced at the watch the teacher gave him. Right on time, Willie split Adele's pale belly open from the navel through the vulva. Whoo whooo whoooo...
...topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...
Just as eye-filling are the new mesh suits. With a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't magic, the mesh meets the flesh in various gradations of bravado-across the midriff, along the sides, and over necklines that dip to the navel. In its most exotic form, the mesh suit makes its owner look like a mermaid who could not-or did not want to-wriggle out of someone's fishnet. Cole of California has already turned out 200,000 mesh suits and is still far short of meeting the demand. Not even the fact that...