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Here's to Sophie, here's to Gimbel...
Women at a recent showing in Sophie Gimbel's dress salon at Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, may have wondered what the three burly men on the front-row love seat were doing in such svelte surroundings. Obviously, they didn't belong there...
...three were TIME Senior Editor Joseph Purtell, Business writer William Miller, and Robert Boyd, TIME'S picture editor. They were there for a final checkup before doing the Sophie Gimbel cover story (TIME, Sept. 15) on women's fashions and the New Look. As far as the three of them were concerned, the showing went off without a hitch-except for a passing remark by Boyd that one of the elegantly organized models' slip was showing. It turned out that it was a lace-trimmed petticoat-and it was supposed to show...
...fashion designer had landed there. Early last summer, however, it appeared to Purtell, who keeps his eye on the world of fashion, that the new styles were about to become big news. Obviously, that was a Business story. After a candid examination of the industry, Designer Sophie Gimbel was chosen to illuminate what fashion was up to this time. The cover was scheduled for September, the month that ushers in the new fall styles...
...such speed that many a town ran out of seam tape. Said Harper's Bazaar airily: "Clear your closet and get your clothes into the hands of those who can use them [in Europe]." But the dresses most likely to be sought would probably be closer to Sophie Gimbel's ideas than to Dior...