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THE RUDI GERNREICH BOOK |
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1966, children's wear in purple wool knit with yellow vinyl dots. To make sure no one misunderstood his fashion message of 1967, Gernreich opened his resort-spring collection with this statement: "For the first time in the history of the world-at least since the Children's Crusade-the young are leading us. There is now a Power Elite of the young. They are discovering their fashion power just as they are discovering their social and political power. They are bringing about a natural fusion of person and dress. And what is amusing is that the older people are beginning to revolt. That in itself might have interesting fashion consequences in a few years as the young get older. For more than three hundred years the French woman has dictated fashion. Now at last, the American woman is coming into fashion maturity, fashion freedom.
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