Which signature element of Laura Petrie's wardrobe did Mary Tyler Moore have to fight for initially?

Prior to The Dick Van Dyke Show, TV housewives almost uniformly wore dresses or skirts. When Moore met resistance for her suggestion of capri pants, she pushed back, arguing that women "don't wear full-skirted dresses to vacuum in". As she later explained in a Vanity Fair interview, she wanted Laura's clothing choices to reflect “what I do in real life, what my friends do, and that’s be a realistic wife who wears pants and doesn’t care how she looks”.

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