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Backless, Frontless. For some, it was tricky going. Emilio Pucci's sheer white halter top and harem pants arrived at Linda Hackett's Park Avenue apart ment with a written warning that she would have to do something about keeping her bosom in. "Band-Aids don't work," she later declared. But Linda, who designs clothes herself, engineered it all with a mysterious combination of "spirit gum and something else...
Baby Jane Holzer, a sometime mod el, played at being Ariel in Simonet-ta's backless, almost frontless halter-top dress of pink chiffon, but stubbornly sat out all the dancing "to promote my new image," whatever that meant. Obviously there was a genuine chance that in a moment of abandon her dress might abandon her. Maybe the new Baby Jane just doesn't do that sort of thing any more. Not at the Plaza, anyway...
...like their lingerie brief and to the point can slip into Warner's combination bra-slip ($11) or Olga's lace-trimmed romper ($6). Finally, Formfit/Rogers has something that occurs in one fell swoop: its so-called "Bathing Suit" ($12.50) is not only backless and practically frontless but scooped away at the midriff until there is almost nothing left. But that, of course, is the whole idea...
Citizens of the U.S. were talking about automobiles and nylons last week. Barbers had difficulty lathering around bitter discussions of strikes. People talked about weather, washing machines, colds, divorce, children's appetites, and at times, after a few drinks, about that fascinating postwar fiction, the frontless evening gown. But the atomic bomb, incomprehensible and unavoidable as taxes and death itself, entered the average citizen's conversation hardly...
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