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...What will Mrs. Grundy say?" worried Dame Ashby throughout Morton's play. For years Mrs. Grundy and grundyism were synonymous with conventional behavior. But when Joe Grundy of Pennsylvania became influential in U.S. politics, the word took on the new meaning of "high button shoe political conservatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...President, said Gentlemen's Quarterly, has "inspired a new style trend, as the two-button suit will testify. The President's shoulders are broad; he needs a minimum of shoulder padding. Since he wears a 40 jacket but has a 33 waist, some waist suppression* is inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Simply Everywhere | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...finals, the silver cup and purple and gold rosette were snatched away from the poodles by a dog as unfashionable as high-button shoes: Ch. Elfinbrook Simon, a stubby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: The Poodle Dethroned | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...Winter Carnival at Sun Valley (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A blend of sports and show business, with Louis Armstrong, Roberta Peters, Skater Dick Button and Skiers Stein Eriksen and Anderl Molterer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 23, 1962 | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...emphasize the sexy look, Jacques Esterel showed-for low-slung pants-a tasseled gold button that glints, eyelike, in the navel. Madame Grès won top engineering honors for a bareback bikini that anybody can make at home with three or four pot holders and a long, thin necktie. For evening wear, Grès grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Word from Paris | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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