70 Year Magazine Archive

Books, Arts & Manners: Clothes Call

by David Klinghoffer

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FALL is here at last and I’ve been looking forward to it for a number of reasons: crisp autumn air, orange leaves, pumpkin pie, and the probability that the sexier women on our city streets would begin to put their clothes back on again. By winter, they may be fully dressed.

Don’t get me wrong. I like female bodies. But over the last decade, every heterosexual man with fully oxygenated blood must have noticed the gradual disrobing that has been going on among women in major metropolises. The recent dust-up about Calvin Klein’s softcore photo ads missed the point. Women well above age 17 are wearing less today than at any time since I entered puberty in 1976.

David Klinghoffer

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David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer, a former literary editor at NR, is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and co-author of The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath, and other books.

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