European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and St Lopes thursday apr it 23,1987 columns today s crossword miniskirts come Back to haunt us by Ellen Goodman just when we thought it wit site 10 Wade Back into High fashion along conies his news from trend spoilers on the Shore the mini is Back yes to the mini. The very same skirt thai brought goosebumps id the Arm of men and chilblains to the thighs of women in the late 1960s. The Crainie a backhand it ii after you. The report out of Paris and new York predict that next fill will be mini and skin. Skirts Are going up at is their Price per Inch and the fashion writers Are predicting with a breathlessness 1 Haven t heard in years that anyone who does t want to look dumpy belter dump a few inches. The Only Good news it that these Are vertical inches. According to Goodman s Rule any Hong you wore the lint Lime around you Are Loo old 10 Wear the second time. This is applied by and Large to or. Demons Mickey mouse hats and pedal pushers. But it also works for miniskirts. I have therefore taken a personal exemption. Still i cannot figure out Why designers think the time Tor the mini has come Back. In he 1960s, Ihli shortest skirt was regarded by some As an artefact of the youth cult. In the Lan Guage of clothes Alison tune lumped it with baby Dot pyjamas As evidence of the Era when grown women wore their clothes at the same distance from the Waist As 2-year-Olds. Others thought it was pan and parcel of the 60s sex Cut. Exactly 20 years ago the Vatican weekly condemned the fashion saying some brainless women professing a pseudo non conformism end up resembling monkeys in adopting the twi capricious excess of fashion there was clearly a much of rebellion in 1960s fashion Baring your Knees was thumbing your nose. In Greece the minister of health ordered All female workers 10 keep i hair Knees covered. In Morocco schoolchildren were asked to Pray for the salvation of women in miniskirts. In Zambia minis kind women were attacked on the Street. But the 80s Are supposedly the sober Era of aids and aerobics  and values curriculum in the schools. A fashion that seemed liberating to women in the 60s can be utterly inhibiting in the 80s. Any Veteran can remember the restrictions of real life in a miniskirt. You cannot Bend Over Sil Down gel Oul of a car or run. For Congress. Whal to do when you find yourself surrounded by Racks of miniskirts when you catch Yourell hoisting your own skirts in the Mirror just to see How they look when you try to remember How to do the Hemstitch in the event of a miniskirt attack remember my favorite relic from the 1960s in 1969 a bulletin from the Federal government warned the fees of Young women respond quite rapidly to exposure of cold temperatures. The bodily response is a Quick buildup of successive layers of Folly molecules under the skin area of the thighs Knees calves and Ankles of female legs there you go. Fat Knees or Cov ered Knees it minimizes the Issue. To sown tube Wii Sneton Ron tourists flocking to . Capital by Dick West Washington although i can t speak for Paris London Tokyo and plier world capitals the summer Louril season in this one at least is off to a swinging Start. This i might add is More than a personal conch Ion based on the length of lines i have seen on the East front of the us. Capital everyone i have talked with guards guides elevator operators agree the season began earlier and in Fuller Force than in limes past thai april along with the usual quota of bands the Capitol is attracting entire classes. Entire schools entire Lowns anyway lines at the Capitol already Are longer than they were i.1si summer when Many americans were cancelling reservations overseas because of the outbreak of world terrorism. Since then terrorism has abated and All in All circumstances looked Good for foreign countries to attract record crowds of americans his summer. Cyl Many americans apparently have decided to continue to see America first beginning with the . Capitol. Vacation habits formed less than 12 months ago Are Tough to break i suppose. As i was saying lines at the Capitol have been longer than Ever and thereby hangs a Laic. Or at least column fodder. Many tourists obviously have the notion the longer they have to wait to Sec it the More worthwhile an attraction is Well it Ain t necessarily so. I can understand Why tourists might stand in line to see a real live congressional session. Very few congressional candidates including incumbents in Vite their colleagues to assemble when they Are campaigning Back Home. And any Laws they passed prob ably would be unconstitutional. But even when Congress was not in session As was True because of the easier recess lines at the Capitol still were Long. Crowds on the cast front Steps were backing up and spilling Over onto the Capitol Plaza where they slopped in 1986. This year on occasions the backup and spillover has crossed the Paza and reached All the Way to East Capitol Street. Those Steps to my knowledge Only Lead to the Capi Tol Rotunda which believe me in t Worth the wait better you should stand in line at the louvre Piccadilly circus along the Ginza or at some place where you Are More Likely to see something worthwhile. C Urius Prim Tournut Toni  i Maik hlir8 my per b silent one 12 one no