Miniskirts and bowl-cuts were height of fashion when Johnson visited Malaysia


PETALING JAYA: When US President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Malaysia in 1966, miniskirts and bowl-cuts were the height of fashion ala the swinging 60s.

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