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...distress, the magazine assigned a team of eight women reporters to a kind of undercover investigation. According to their findings, black lingerie is so scarce that salespeople are tired of saying "no" to repeated demands. Supposedly black slips and panties delivered to GUM are only dirty brown. Why are lace trimmings so shoddy? Not enough lace or lacemaking machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even...
Elderly ladies in lace jabots and stiffly polite gentlemen in somewhat frayed double-breasted black suits filled five small rooms in Munich's Municipal Gallery. They were members of Munich's large Russian colony, and they had come to see their own past reflected in an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Leonid Pasternak, father of the late Russian poet-novelist, Boris...
...Balenciaga and Givenchy) became Three. The fall fashion trends: more fur (on cuffs, collars, scarves and hoods); jewel shades of color (garnet, topaze and turquoise) along with the not-so-new fruit and flower tones (fuchsia, heather, plum and black currant); opulent fabrics (heavily worked brocade, beaded silk and lace). "The little-boy look," cried Women's Wear Daily, "is out . . . The Big Three have rediscovered...
Penny Hays, in a pink and lavender dress trimmed with white lace, is absolutely ravishing as the shameless, lying wife Angelique (note Moliere's ironic use of this traditional name from Italian farce); it is easy to understand how anyone would want to seduce her, married or not. Angelique is, not to mince words, a bitch in lamb's clothing, a sort of female lago; and Miss Hays does her just right...
...down Leopoldville's broad Boulevard Albert I to celebrate the Congo's second anniversary of independence. President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Cyrille Adoula took the salute from the black soldiers of the new Garde Républicaine, who were decked out in powder-blue uniforms with black lace trimming and red feathered hats. Along the route, 20,000 Congolese added their cheers to the festive occasion...