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Sauce for the Gander

by Inez (5-H-13) FPE

It's no longer just the perfumes labled

"shave lotions" that are borrowed from the girls it's the whole works. The boys have taken over the female costume, and coined a new word - the skirtsuit- for the result. Skirts have been around, and admired by men for some time and now that skirts have dis- appeared and been replaced by pantsuits, men have adopted skirts to prevent this type of attire from going into the limbo with the Dodo bird.

This season's total coordination of skirt and blouse have made skirtsuits the most popular urban look. Worn with heels, makeup and proper wig the skirtsuit goes everywhere except to church. The women's-wear trade, meanwhile, is not unaffected. Some stores have put in men's fitting rooms in the ladies wear departments for men shoppers on the prowl for new fem-outfits in these once feminine retreats.

Finding that 20% of their feminine Molly line was being sold to men, one manufacturer of women's- wear forthwith added his now popular Molly Dolly.

True? Well it's possible. The reverse certainly is true as reported by Life Magazine (Oct. 7, '66.)

It's no longer just the shirt off his back this fall. It's the whole works. The girls have taken over the male costume, shoe tops to shoulders, and coined a new word the pantsuit for the result.