Word: coccyx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bare the back any more," says Seventh Avenue Designer Chester Weinberg, "I may be jailed." He exaggerates but little: the backs of some of his latest dresses are cut away right down to the coccyx. Weinberg's flirtation with the lower limits of modesty only makes him one of the crowd. Rarely have so many designers been so intent on uncovering so much; and as a result, fashions this summer will be the breeziest and barest in memory...
...into a retaining wall at 60 m.p.h. "I've never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy got up all right-with a badly bruised right elbow and a broken coccyx. Three days later, her right arm shot full of Novocain, ski pole taped to her glove, she raced in the giant slalom and finished fourth...
...thing about spirals. Everything from bikinis to ball gowns swirled their way up and down the figure. The bias that really biased the crowd was a black, silk, matelasse evening dress-the high halter neck in front dropped to a dangerous curve at a point slightly northwest of the coccyx. Lest any man not notice-which seems hardly likely-there is a big shiny bauble planted at the perigee...
...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 and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels. Dior's Marc Bohan, however, departed only slightly from the closed-Dior shape of the past. Although he lowered belts until they fetched up on the hips, Bohan stubbornly stuck to a squared...