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Marcella Jones Free (September 17, 1920 – November 23, 2007) was respected as one of the advertising industry's leading copywriters. [ citation needed ] She was a pioneering woman in the business and was the first female Creative Director at N. W. Ayer in Philadelphia in the 1940s.
"Short Shorts" is a song written and performed by Tom Austin, Bill Crandell, Bill Dalton, and Bob Gaudio, members of The Royal Teens. It reached #2 on the U.S. R&B chart and #3 on the U.S. pop chart in 1958. [1] The group originally released the track on the small New York label Power Records in 1957.
The term "Short Shorts" in the song referred specifically to very short cutoff jeans as worn by teenage girls. The term appears to have originated with Bob Gaudio and Tom Austin. [ 3 ] According to the group's website, they coined the term in 1957, and hit on using it as a song theme and title that summer when they saw two girls in cutoffs ...
At men's week this summer, short shorts were everywhere—in large part thanks to actor Paul Mescal making the look go viral. At men's week this summer, short shorts were everywhere—in large ...
When did shorts get so, well, short? I'm happy to report that longer shorts do exist. And despite what young folk may have you believe, styles with a 7-inch or even 10-inch inseam can look good on ...
While the term "hotpants" is used generically to describe extremely short shorts, [1] similar garments had been worn since the 1930s. [1] These garments, however, were designed mainly for sports, beachwear and leisure wear, while hotpants were innovative in that they were made from non-activewear fabrics such as velvet, silk, crochet, fur and leather, and styled explicitly to be worn on the ...
When the late-night host listened back to the lyrics, he said, he was "really laughing at how deeply s---ty they were." The Lonely Island returned to SNL for its 50th season, most recently with ...
Shorts that terminated at the upper thigh became increasingly popular as informal leisurewear and sporting attire throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s for both men and women. [68] In the early 1970s short shorts began to be made in fashion fabrics, in which form they became known as hotpants (see above), a term popularised by Women's Wear Daily.