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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20010619
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International Herald Tribune
06-19-2001
PARIS It's two to one against Booth Tarkington. He's the man who dared say that skirts were doomed, that within fifty years women and skirts would be parted. ''I disagree with Mr. Tarkington,'' said Miss Pickford, ''and my reason is because of the ankles that are to be seen now. Moreover, a woman's figure doesn't lend itself to trousers. It would be perfectly hideous to them.'' Miss Loos, who wrote the best-selling ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,'' declared: ''I do not think women will ever resort to trousers simply because then there would be no ...

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