Word: dior
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...abetted by Paris. There the brasshats of fashion, indifferent as always to the wishes or even the shapes of their subjects, panted to regain the attention, if not the prestige, which they had lost during the war. Almost before anyone could say haute couture, such Parisian newcomers as Christian Dior were making a great to-do about squeezing waists into wasp lines and padding out hips-and the revolution...
...other U.S. designers are not so sure. Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie, who claims to have started the hip-padding "before anyone heard of Dior," was featuring Paris dresses last week, and busily pinching in waists, lowering hems. So was Manhattan's Henri Bendel, who was showing ankle-length skirts and padded hips. Nettie Rosenstein, the top designer of the mass-producing Seventh Avenue factories, was going in for padding and long skirts. Seventh Avenue's Harriet Harra went even further with a "wraparound" cocktail suit which would have made an Egyptian mummy feel at home. But Russian...
...Vogue, bustled home from a quick inspection of her revived British and French editions. Pert Carmel Snow, 56, editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer of "magnificent courage" named Christian Dior (the man who, abetted by some Americans, first dared to lower skirts after the death of L-85, the Wartime material-hoarding order...