As Laura Petrie, stay-at-home TV mom,wife to Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moorerefused to wear dressy skirts,frou-frou heels, or pearls. Laura wore pants,specifically capris because, Women don’t wearfull-skirted dresses to vacuum in. Sponsors were concernedabout the fit of her pants, using the term, cupping underwhich Mary Tyler Moore assumed meant,My, you know, my seat –That there was a little too much definition. Mary Tyler Moore, aka Laura,was not allowed to wear pants in more than one scene. Veteran television actress Mary Tyler Moore arrives at the 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998.

Source: The Irish Times May 08, 2021 04:52 UTC