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...worries about costs, as do millions of others: "I mean, who can afford the price of great wines these days?" The wines they do serve are chosen by Reagan. Her stylish wardrobe will remain much the same: "I tend toward simpler clothes. I like some things from Yves Saint Laurent. I like Bill Blass, Adolfo, and I think Jimmy Galanos is a master, although he's got terribly expensive. I remember the first dress I ever got from Jimmy; I paid $125 for it. Those good old days!" Her size (5 ft. 4 in., 110 Ibs.) is not likely...
...Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan, free-spending shoppers are readily paying $545 for Burberry trench coats or $1,000 for life-size hand-carved replicas of China's eight immortal mandarins. At the Younkers department store in Omaha, one customer recently bought seven Yves Saint Laurent blouses as gifts for $400 each...
...They are even in vogue for evening wear. At this month's opening of the San Francisco Opera season, one of the nation's few remaining high-fashion occasions, several soignée ladies appeared in elegant jumps that attracted as much attention as the Yves St. Laurent gowns (one spectacular number was all black velvet, festooned with pearls). Brides have been jumpsuiting their way to the altar. Says San Francisco Manufacturer Doug Thomkins: "Not every woman in town is wearing a jumpsuit. But every woman has one hanging in her closet...
...Larchmont who is having her breakfast." One reason the coverage was subdued was the absence of any explosive new trends. There was nothing that remotely approached the magnitude of Dior's 1947 "new look" (long, full skirts with tiny waists) or the miniskirt in 1965 or Saint Laurent's 1976 peasant look. Indeed, the dragons were hedging their assessments as skillfully as any veteran political reporter. Looking forward to the London, Paris and New York showings, Bernadine Morris wrote in the Times: "By the end of next month it will be clear whether hemlines...
...marketing director, Jean-Louis Delpuech, scoffs that U.S. perfume makers have tended "to go 'down market' to a type of woman who demands more smell for her money." But others are more philosophical about the demand for perfumes with staying power. Robert Young, president of Yves Saint Laurent perfumes, traces the taste for strong fragrances to the same craving for identity that makes people want designer names on their clothes. Says he: "The French were wrong when they failed to respond to this need." Whatever the reason, powerful scents are selling. Worldwide sales of Opium are expected...