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...girls are a study of Gallic contrasts. Mick Micheyl is sunny; Juliette Greco is subterranean. In her simple sheath or plain skirt and white broadcloth shirtwaist, Mick affects the saucy style of a French street urchin-the impertinent type Parisians call un titi. Juliette, in her clinging, floor-length black, displays the kind of world-weariness that once moved Jean Cocteau to speak of "the 'ruinous jewel of her heart." Both Mick and Juliette, intense admirers insist, do not merely sing-they have something...
...route to Sun Valley. For this occasion, Marilyn wore what she calls her "disguise." This consisted of a Venetian gondolier's brown straw hat with white band, smoked glasses, no makeup at all, a man's heavy black sweater, grey striped trousers, high heels and a floor-length mink coat...
Last week Joni James was back in Chicago for a triumphal stage appearance at the Chicago Theater. The audience cheered when she swept out in a floor-length, white-beaded number and bounced through a happy performance of Gee, but It's Great to Be Again in My Home Town-and into her hit songs. Joni also found time while in Chicago for a sentimental visit to Bowen High School. She hugged her old teachers on sight, wept openly when she sang in her old place in the Bowen High mixed chorus, accepted a bouquet of roses...
Drapes. Housewives were asked by OPA's Consumer Division to give up ruffles on curtains, to cut off floor-length drapes and do without pleated flounces on slip covers to save millions of yards of textiles...