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Those who have never seen Dolly gasp. That mountain of a teased blond wig and the hot-pink, jeweled jumpsuit are spectacular. Only five feet tall, she totters atop five-inch gold heels. Swinging into All I Can Do, she catches the eyes of the people in the front rows and plays to them, talking, teasing...
...chief hood (played by a corpulent Eugene Roche) runs a hot vehicles and appliances operation--that is to say, he's a couple of legalities removed from a used car salesman. He has neither taste nor an eye for sharp clothes; his favorite seems to be a terry-cloth jumpsuit. And where the old racketeers had bodyguards with pug noses and club-steak ears, this fellow hires a turtleneck-wearing glamour boy (John Considine) who might just as well be Lyle Waggoner. What's more, these contemporary villains have lost all sense of decorum. They try to impress by breaking...
Another comer is Cal Vainstein, 46, also a New York transplant, whose New Hero line features drawstring pants, caftans and other casual clothes, like a $47 hot-pink jumpsuit with harem pants and a neckline plunging to the waist. New Hero expects to earn more than $2 million this year...
However degrading, these images apparently sell merchandise. Cheeks sales for the final quarter were up 500% over the previous year, and the Camel's Hump display increased sales by 25%. The John Anthony jumpsuit worn by the battered woman in Avedon's Vogue pictures sold "beautifully," according to a company spokeswoman. "There was a lot of good reaction," she said, "so business-wise it was very successful...
What of the other 50? "We have a Negro guitar player named Ray White with a red jumpsuit, and his dashing accomplice Bianca--they add an element of funk--and then there's me, for that Mediterranean raunch effect," he says...