Word: bazaar
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...even Portugal and Poland. One U.S. boutique owner crossed the Atlantic to buy mod dresses on sale for $3.60, figuring that their London labels would enable her to charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies which make the pound look like a sick piaster...
...Harper's Bazaar used to be able to say, 'This year you wear green,' or whatever," says its editor, Nancy White, "but not any longer." Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland agrees that what gives the new fashions their fresh look and vitality is youth: "This generation stepped out and away and did things their way." As a result, notes Vreeland, "no one is obliged to wear anything she doesn't want to, and one can go as far as she wants. She can wear absolutely anything that is wildly becoming...
...subject was miniskirts, and her judgment was that "never in the history of fashion have so many illusions been destroyed in so short a time." Such sentiments were catnip both to the readers of Harper's Bazaar and to the judges of the first annual Magazine Awards given jointly by the J. C. Penney Co. and the University of Missouri. The panel awarded a $1,000 prize in the fashion and beauty category to stylish Stout-Heiress Gloria Guinness, 53, for her article in the June 1966 Bazaar deploring the "short, short, short skirt" as "that crazy young look...
Wall posters depicted a gargantuan Arab crushing a tiny Israel beneath his boot. Khaki was the predominant color among the milling crowds in the souk (bazaar). Most of those in the street seemed to be either policemen, soldiers, or members of one or another of Syria's plethora of paramilitary organizations, ranging from the "Volunteer People's Army" to the Futtawa youth corps...
Says Harper's Bazaar Editor Nancy White, "everyone in the business has to read Women's Wear every...