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Although this does not exhaust the film's attention to insignificance, it does hit many of the high points. Of course, Cyd Charisse's brogue is pretty, and it's enlightening to see that dress fashions in 1723 Scotland owe something to Christian Dior...
...better the lot of her sisters in satin, two years ago Lucie Daouphars, an almond-eyed part-time Dior mannequin who calls herself Lucky ("It pronounces Looky, as in Looky Strike"), organized L'Association Mutuelle des Mannequins de France. For dues of $7 a year, the association undertook to provide its members with free legal aid, a form of unemployment insurance, medical aid (even in cases of unwed motherhood), and the services of a plastic surgeon. "A bosom of growing importance," sighs Lucky, "is often a cause of unemployment."* Best of all, the association provided its girls with...
Last week, clad in a tasteful Dior black wool suit with blue stole, Mannequin Lucky led a protesting detachment of 150 models into Paris' famed Palais de Justice. "This tribunal," said Presiding Magistrate Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.' " Nevertheless, Lucky had broken the law and must pay "a penalty of principle." Somberly the judge pronounced sentence: a fine of 60?. Borne from the courtroom in triumph on the shoulders of heftier companions, Lucky promised to win from the government formal permission to continue her Association Mutuelle...
...Paris last week, the very latest word in fashion was that Christian Dior had gone gothic, and brought out a brassière-girdle-corset to shift bosoms about to conform to the new, flatter look. Said a Dior artisan of the bustline: "The main idea is to bring the bosom-which used to center some 25 to 26 centimeters (9.8 to 10.2 inches) from the shoulder-up to 19 or 20 centimeters (7.4 to 8.2)." Although U.S. designers dutifully listened, some claimed that his new look was old stuff to them. Said the New York Dress Institute...
...show off her less obvious talents during the contest, Lee Ann gave a dramatic reading of a scene from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea. Next day, Miss America modestly insisted that her figure was really nothing to get excited about. Said she: "I think Dior's flat look came just in time to save...