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...visit to Mme. Tussaud's wax museum, an American ambassador once observed, "is just like an ordinary English evening party." Last week, as Mme. Tussaud's celebrated its 200th anniversary in London, the company was a bit more animated. At a dinner in Tussaud's halls, with the likenesses of Mao and Churchill staring eerily on, Earl Mountbatten examined himself and said: "Every few years they bring you up to date-take out a few hairs, add a wrinkle." Perhaps the only personage whose image had improved was Mary Queen of Scots. Her biographer, Lady Antonia Fraser...
...hate to see them get too long," said Adlai Stevenson III. "Generally, I am happier when they are short," pronounced John D. Rockefeller IV. Sideburns? Speeches? Novels? Contempt sentences? What the two young politicians were discussing was hemlines. The subject heated up as a result of Mme. Georges Pompidou's triumphant American tour with those calf-clutching Longuettes from Paris. In women's eyes, at least, Mme. Pompidou just may have tipped the scales in the year's mini-midi-maxi skirmish. In the front line of the battle, Los Angeles-based James Galanos became the first...
Couturiers were the first to be charmed. Yves Saint Laurent showed a staggering array of snakeskins in his most recent collection, which featured a line of python-printed chiffon dresses (Mme. Pompidou took hers to Chicago last month and wore it with a gold ser pent belt). Givenchy's snaky stretch-wool suit is already being copied, scale for scale, and London Designer Jean Muir has a whole group of satin separates, all slithery with the python pattern. America's Adele Simpson and Bill Blass have embossed the markings onto vel vet and chiffon; Halston has gone...
Leggy Look. Opulent as such a wardrobe sounds, Mme. Pompidou cannot be accused of extravagance. France's designers are delighted to have the press-agentry their first lady provides by simply strolling within range of photographers. The clothes are on loan, and Madame walks in glory, ogled by the public, photographed by the press and spreading the expensive news of the famous Paris fashion houses wherever she goes...
Added Mystery. One designer who refuses to be pushed to damned lengths is Rudi Gernreich: "I'm very much against the midi because it's illogical. It's like going to Mme. Tussaud's." Says Bill Blass, "I'm bored with fashion dictatorship. Women are not going to wear something just because it's publicized...