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...newest swimsuits (for Lily Of France), which is not yet on the market, used as the lead picture in your "Look, No Straps" story [May 3]. I am particularly upset about the fact that in your story a reference is made to a Calvin Klein Lycra maillot as his "coolest hot-seller." Certainly looks as though my suit is his bestseller-is that a way to treat a trend...
Well-rounded clavicles are on display in everything from evening gowns to T shirts. Neck and shoulder in popularity this season are strapless "maillot" (one-piece) bathing suits, sundresses and jumpsuits. Women cannot buy the styles fast enough. Manhattan's Henri Bendel already has its daytime strapless line on second and third reorder. Halston has sold 380 strapless sarongs (price range: $600 to $1,000). Calvin Klein's Lycra maillot is the coolest hot-seller in his swimsuit collection...
...After reading the injunction, Steiner climbed the steps and pushed a copy through the maillot in the door of the building...
...native shores to fill in the spaces exposed by plummeting necklines and high-riding shorts, offering new methods of engineering that open vistas in unexpected places. Cole of California used fishnet to screen a deep isosceles plunge ($26), Rose Marie Reid to add a jeweled lace topping to a maillot ($50), while Designer Bill Blass took a big breath, and a giant step, left gaps where gaps had never before been left, and let flesh fill in instead of fishnet...
...Inner secrets," says Rose Marie Reid, "create a foundation fit," for a maillot of zephyr wool and Lastex. Catalina's striped suit, resembling a TV channel that needs focusing, is made of lisle cotton, clings to the bodice, has loose, boy-length shorts. Cole of California's "Venus" is a wrapped-to-the-figure white drape. "It's putty in your hands," says Cole, "but on your figure it sculpts you as Pygmalion sculptured Galatea...