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...indescribable, Golux-like hat, Miss Lillie sang such numbers as "I heard My Goldfish Yedeling" and did the twist with Laurence H. Scott, teaching fellow in History and Literature. She also recalled that she once told a waiter who spilled coffee on her dress, "Never darken my Dior again...
Couturiers often seem to regard the bosom as an unsightly bit of female topography that must be bound and bandaged lest it get in the way of style; sometimes, like insanity in the family, the bosom even has been treated as a dark secret. But Christian Dior's Marc Bohan sent a little black dress down the runway at last summer's Paris collections that not only acknowledged the bosom but exposed it almost entirely. American buyers looked at the peep show cautiously, concluded it was a gag, not a trend. They were wrong. Women...
Paris was unwrapping its Spring fashions, and last year's dictator of decollete, Dior's Marc Bohan, 37, was still in there plunging. Necklines were slipping in practically every big fashion house, but Bohan was a hard man to undercut, clearly wound up on the bottom of the heap. His biggest surprise was moving the bared bosom into broad daylight, and one billowy-sleeved, pleated-skirt afternoon number called the "Tom Jones" was so generously scooped that a single false step-and zut! alors! "We think women are glad to have such decolletage," said a Dior spokesman...
Upstairs, the war of the Marimekko raged. A male spectator might have thought that Dior--not DR--was holding the sale. Few 'Cliffes--but almost every other Cambridge lady--armed themselves with the gaily colored Finnish shifts and mounted to the third floor, where the vice-president's office had been hastily converted into a mass dressing room...
...World in Vogue observes only major changes in fashion (such as Patou's drop of hemlines in 1930, Dior's New Look in 1947, and the chemise in 1958). The volume ends on a most sophisticated note, with the mischievous, tongue-in-cheek observation: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...