Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the famous photographer of women, Philippe Halsman, "she has the finest figure of any actress I have known." In Paris a new phrase (les lollos) is being used in brassiere advertisements. In Lon don Sir Jacob Epstein, the famed sculptor, has done a bust of Gina, and in Manhattan, Gossipist Walter Winchell has been gushing about the new "Lollopalooza...
Among the dubbed Buses, these are currently the favorites: CJ Silvana Mangano (bust 36 in., waist 25 in., hips 35 in.), known as "the Italian Rita Hayworth." really looks more like Ingrid Bergman. The 24-year-old daughter of an Englishwoman and a Sicilian railroad conductor, she stands about 5 ft. 6 in., weighs about 128 Ibs., has brown eyes and chestnut hair. Picked as Miss Rome of 1946, she went on to a bit part in a film and a job modeling clothes, was finally offered the role of the girl who gets attacked by the sadist in Bitter...
...that Designer Christian Dior's flat look was not so flat after all. Fewer than a third of Dior's new dresses minimized the bosom, and even these bore no resemblance to the droopy formlessness of the Jazz Age. Most dresses were molded from hipbone to mid-bust, creating a long, svelte torso, a high and undeniably sexy bust line. The Parisian models looked more as if they were holding their breath than suffering from collapsed chests. Said Chairman David Neverov of Manhattan's Russeks. back from Paris: "It is a style that would make Marilyn Monroe...
...ceramics show in Long Beach, Calif., a bust of a young girl was exhibited by a sculptress whose name had a gaslitera ring to older art patrons. The artist: onetime Showgirl Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone...
...pearl grey, upholstered, perfumed room in Paris' Avenue Montaigne, the buyers broke into a storm of bravos. Soon the news was pouring out to a waiting world: "Christian Dior today dropped the waistline to the hips, flattened the bust and sent women's fashions back to the Jazz Age of the 1920s . . . Dior has abolished bosoms...