Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little asten years before, you can’t help being strucked by the __1__ appearance of the women taking part.
Their hair styles and make-up look date; their skirts look either too long or too __2__ short; their general appearance is, in fact, slightly ludicrous.
The men taking part, on other hand, are clearly recognizable. __3__ There is nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong to an entire different age.
This illusion is created __4__ by changing fashions. Over the years, the great minority of men __5__ have successfully resisted all attempts to make it change their __6__ style of dress.
The same cannot be said for women. Each year, a fewer so-called top designers in Paris and London lay down __7__ on the law and women around the world run to obey.
The __8__ decrees of the designers are unpredictable and dictatorial.
Sometime they decide arbitrarily, that skirts will be short and __9__ waists will be height; hips are in and buttons are out. __10__