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...Those show-offs who wear dresses up to their bottoms know nothing about fashion," fumes Jo Hughes, the super-saleslady at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman who has made a career out of helping stylish women stay in style. Snaps West Coast Designer James Galanos: "All they've done is chop five inches off the hem and they call it new. To me it's a laugh." It is no laugh to Norman Norell, 67, dean of American designers. "Elegance is out," sighs the master of elegance. "It's a fascinating, frustrating time to be a designer...
Into the Manhattan premiere of the film Camelot swept Socialite Drue Heinz, resplendent in her pink brocade Oscar de La Renta gown. Then another limousine and out stepped Socialite Jean Tailer, proudly wearing her pink brocade Oscar de La Renta gown. And then came Socialite (and super saleswoman for Bergdorf Goodman) Jo Hughes, equally chic in the identical Oscar de La Renta gown...
Clearly, more of the same bosomy look lay ahead. Jo Hughes, who organizes fashion showings for Bergdorf Goodman, ordered up a completely new string of girls to model the store's clothes. The girls this time, she promised, would be "much more chesty...
...fussy about which ones you drop. You shouldn't let on that you're not yet bored with anything more advanced than "21," the Plaza, the Colony Club, and Southampton. And Newport. Really. Now if one were bored with Arthur, Lincoln Center, and having one's hair done at Bergdorf's on Tuesday afternoon, that would be better...
Baths to Brassware. The trick would not work everywhere. Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, for instance, marks its perfume flacons with a secret symbol that can be seen only at a certain angle through the glass. More and more department stores now paste on special labels or stickers to identify their wares, although to keep a good customer happy they may still sometimes tactfully accept goods obviously bought at another store if they are of a type that the store already stocks...