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Day Four of Favorite Fashion Editors: Marian Christy
One of the most significant fashion reporters of the 1960s and early 1970s was Marian Christy. She started at the Boston Globe in April 1965 and her work was later picked up by the syndicate U.P.I. Her columns then ran in 104 different newspapers. She won Penney-Missouri Awards in 1966, 1968 and 1970. That is Christy sitting in the chair below at a Penney-Missouri Award ceremony. Bobbi McCallum is the Seattle women’s page journalist standing in the lace pantsuit. Christy took a progressive, sociological approach to fashion – rather than writing for advertisers. For example, she described the see-through blouse from a late-1960s Saint Laurent fashion show: “Haute couture is…