HIS EXPERIENCES AND DISPLAYED SUCH ZEST FOR LIFE THAT HE WENT SWIMMING ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS OPERATION. BLAIBERG LIVED ANOTHER 594 DAYS WITH ANOTHER MAN'S HEART. FUN AND FASHION THE MINI SKIRT WAS THE GREATEST RAGE IN FASHION DURING THE '60s. IT WAS IMPORTED FROM PARIS AND ADOPTED BY U.S. TEENAGERS AND COEDS AS THE PERFECT COMPLEMENT TO PATTERNED STOCKINGS AND LEATHER BOOTS, USUALLY WHITE. GIRLS REVEALED MORE THIGH THAN THEY HAD STOCKING TO COVER AND AMERICAN MALES WERE SCRAMBLING FOR THE BEST VANTAGE POINT! BY NECESSITY, THE FEMALE FORM HAD TO BE PENCIL THIN TO WEAR THE STYLES OF THE DAY. AND IF THEY WEREN'T PENCIL THIN, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, THERE WAS A LOT OF THIGH SHOWING AND EVEN BOSOMS, WHEN THE TOPLESS BATHING SUIT WAS INTRODUCED BY RUDY GERNREICH. FOR MEN, FASHIONS DIDN'T MAKE SUCH DRAMATIC STATEMENTS. THE TURTLENECK SWEATER WORN UNDER A SPORT JACKET, EVEN BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WAS VERY POPULAR. PERHAPS THE BIGGEST FASHION STATEMENT WAS THE NEHRU JACKET. IT IS A LONG, MANDARIN-COLLARED JACKET WITHOUT LAPELS. IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS, SURFING ON THE COASTS BECAME OBSESSIONS OF YOUNG MEN, IN PARTICULAR. USING 7 FT. OR 12 FT. BALSA OR POLYURETHANE BOARDS, AN ESTIMATED 100,000 SURFERS STRUGGLED UPRIGHT AGAINST NATURE TO BALANCE AS THEY CAUGHT THE BIG WAVES OR BREAKERS COMING IN. THE DISCOTHEQUE WAS THE PLACE TO BE FOR DANCING AND SOCIALIZING. PEOPLE DANCED THE FRUG, TWITCHING SEXILY FROM SIDE TO SIDE WHILE THEIR HANDS MADE SLOW AND SENSUOUS GESTURES. THE WOBBLE AND THE HULLY-GULLY WERE GROUP DANCES USING GESTURES IN A CHARADE-STYLE. OF COURSE, IN ORDER TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND FOR ALL THESE NEW ITEMS ON THE AMERICAN MARKET, THEY HAD TO BUILD STORES. IN TEN YEARS, THE NUMBER OF SHOPPING CENTERS QUADRUPLED. THEY ACCOUNTED FOR 39% OF ALL RETAIL SALES. MALLS WERE "BORN." BY COMBINING GLAMOUR AND CONVENIENCE, MALLS FOCUSED NOT ONLY ON RETAILING ACTIVITY, BUT ON THE COMMUNITY CULTURE AND RECREATIONAL LIFE. THEY WERE LIKE LITTLE CO...
