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Rewards for Billboards. Other oathtaking Governors, with perhaps less at stake in national terms, tailored their cloth to fit their own political patterns...
...China's masses last week had much in common with the subjects of the famous fairy-tale emperor: everybody was talking about new clothes, but nobody could actually see them. After three years of bad cotton crops, the annual cloth ration has shrunk to as little as 2½ ft. per person in some regions-"just enough," said one refugee, "to patch our rags." So severe is the shortage, according to the official Peking People's Daily, that "clothes hospitals" are making "short-sleeved shirts out of long-sleeved shirts, a vest out of a short-sleeved shirt...
Actually, the customer has never had an alternative to select. Having advanced the shiny hazard, could a manufacturer offer a fitted black cloth as an accessory without open hypocrisy...
...only) that came with the outfit. They may still have one in jersey left over from last summer but, more likely they will follow the trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored purple, cerise or tangerine. The beach-bound set will wander the islands in shirts that follow the Pucci dictum (find two colors that cannot go along quietly, put them together, and toss in five...
...final accolade of "understatement" has been bestowed on everything from peignoirs to periwigs, the shift genuinely understates the understatement. It has, in fact, been criticized on those very grounds. Complained New York Mirror Columnist Suzy: "Too many of them look like loving hands at home sewed two lengths of cloth together, cut out a couple of little holes for the arms, a medium-sized one for the head and a big one for two legs to stick out of." Nothing quite so simple swivels heads in the streets; nor is the straight shift likely to turn strong men helpless after...