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Security men almost outnumbered the guests at the Guy de Rothschild chateau outside Paris-and with good reason. A dazzle of diamonds winked and twinkled in all directions, from hair, hands, necks and bosoms. The Duchess of Windsor's were canary. Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green. But Elizabeth Taylor outshone everyone at the costume ball with the 69.4-carat, million-dollar "Burton Diamond" at her throat, and her black hair caught up in a net studded with 1,000 small diamonds and edged with 25 larger ones. Perhaps to relieve the monotony...
...customers "queen-size ladies" and is equally tactful about sizes. "Most stores call you small, medium, large or extra large." she says, "but in our shop you're Petite (size 16 to 20), Coquette (size 221 to 261) or Mademoiselle (261 to 321)." Anything larger ranks in the Duchess class. Nancy herself is in the Mademoiselle bracket, and she has ordained that all her models and sales personnel must be at least a size 16. "We never show our clothes on skinny models," she says. "If the models are a size 10 or 12, how am I to know...
Some private villa owners good-naturedly complied. Prince Bertil of Sweden, a democratic fellow who wears a beret while riding around Ste.-Maxime on a mini-motorcycle, willingly cut a passage through the wicker fence around his villa's beach. At Cabasson, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who could claim extraterritoriality for her beach by virtue of her title, readily admitted sunbathers and swimmers to her beach provided they were decently dressed and not too noisy...
Chicago-born Main Rousseau Bocher retired last week at 80, and the world of fashion lost its Grand Old Man -Mainbocher. The first and only American to make it to the top in Paris haute couture, Main, as he was called by the likes of the Duchess of Windsor, moved to Manhattan in 1940, where he became famous for the superelegant simplicity of his very expensive clothes. "I don't like to see people 'dressed up,' " he says. "I've always made dresses for ladies." The ladies he made them for will always remember the Main...
...from the era of Sidney Bechet, a pair of American expatriate hound dawgs with IQs slightly lower than Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied by Phil Harris, could be poured on waffles. His inamorata, Duchess, is furnished with a Hungarian purr that could only have issued from the vocal cords of Eva Gabor. They and the rest of the players sing a number of numbers-all of them delightful, and one of them (Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat) absolutely true. The animals...