Word: miniskirted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nearly every businessman believes that new corporate conglomerates went out with the miniskirt. Not Raymond Mason. Says the 53-year-old chairman of the Charter Co., who has hitched together an unlikely troika of oil, insurance and communications enterprises into the 74th firm on the FORTUNE 500 list: "You get safer by getting bigger...
...write for the lady in Larchmont who is having her breakfast." One reason the coverage was subdued was the absence of any explosive new trends. There was nothing that remotely approached the magnitude of Dior's 1947 "new look" (long, full skirts with tiny waists) or the miniskirt in 1965 or Saint Laurent's 1976 peasant look. Indeed, the dragons were hedging their assessments as skillfully as any veteran political reporter. Looking forward to the London, Paris and New York showings, Bernadine Morris wrote in the Times: "By the end of next month it will be clear whether...