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At the 1968 feminist Miss America protest, protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine fashion-related products into a "Freedom Trash Can," including false eyelashes, high-heeled shoes, curlers, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, and bras [73] which they termed "instruments of female torture".
Pages in category "1968 in women's history" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-01-08; Vintage Photos - art, life and fashion in the 20th Century. Madame Grès, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains a good deal of material on fashion from this period
The catsuits and fashion paraphernalia in The Avengers, including the leather boots, kept the youth "at home on Saturday nights" according to The Spectator. [19] Novelist and social analyst Gillian Freeman attributed this popularity to the "kinkiness" of the attire of Gale and Peel in The Undergrowth of Literature , her seminal study on ...
Connie Kreski (September 19, 1946 – March 21, 1995), an American model and actress, is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 1968 and Playmate of the Year for 1969. Kreski had long taffy-colored hair and blue eyes. Kreski died from a blocked carotid artery on March 21, 1995, in Beverly Hills, California. She was 48.
In women's clothing, a corselet or corselette is a type of foundation garment, sharing elements of both bras and girdles. It extends from straps over the shoulders down the torso, and stops around the top of the legs. It may incorporate lace in front or in back. As an undergarment, a corselet can be open-style (with suspenders attached) or ...
Body armor, personal armor (also spelled armour), armored suit (armoured) or coat of armor, among others, is armor for a person's body: protective clothing or close-fitting hands-free shields designed to absorb or deflect physical attacks.
It was standard in women's fashion in Europe for several centuries and served to shape the body and support upright posture, evolving in form as fashion trends changed. Depending on the era and location, the corset has been called various terms such as a pair of bodies, stays, or corsets.