Word: balenciagas
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Nevertheless, there was still plenty to astonish. Some designers-notably Balenciaga-showed dresses, including evening gowns, with split skirts worn over torea-dorlike pantaloons. For the hot-weather trade, Schiaparelli featured an evening dress with a transparent blouse under which only a black brassière was worn...
...Hermès, famed for his sport dresses, featured his low-necked "Boston." Another newcomer, Pierre Balmain, managed to be very chic and comparatively reasonable: his mauve taffeta and tight-skirted black silk evening gown (price: $360) also had long gloves of matching taffeta. Spanish-born, ex-Communist Balenciaga was the only one who went against the mode. The New York Sun's Judy Barden quipped about Balenciaga's conservative collection: "It reminds...
Such reports from the opening of Paris fashion shows have grated on Nazi ears for the past fortnight as Schiaparelli followed Mainbocher, and Paquin, Patou and Balenciaga demonstrated that, whoever runs the world, Paris intends to go on making his wife's clothes...