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Princess Elizabeth was undergoing alterations. The puffs and frills of girlhood were giving way to simpler, more sophisticated (and more slimming) styles; and Designer Norman Hartnell-still mama's dressmaker-was giving way to Molyneux, the very smart Duchess of Kent's stylist...
...last week famous couturiers displayed their 1944 creations. .Most of the familiar names were back: Bruyere, Alix, Molyneux, Worth, Lanvin, Schiaparelli, Lelong, Paquin. The trend was pronounced: skirts full and short, waists small, shoulders wide, sleeves mutton-legged. Designers used material lavishly, too lavishly for U.S. and British women limited by regulations and rationing...
Britain's Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose sent five of their royal dolls to Washington to be auctioned by British War Relief for the benefit of European child refugees in England. Couturiers for the doll clothes: Molyneux and Norman Hartnell. Models for the dolls: Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses...
...mannequins, whose figures and complexions resemble those of swank Latin women, are touring South America under Nazi auspices, showing models flown in German and Italian planes from conquered Paris. The tall, slender, pink-&-white-complexioned Willingdon mannequins will show models just created by the London branches of Worth, Paquin, Molyneux and Lachasse, plus others by Norman Hartnell, Victor Stiebel, Digby Morton, Peter Russell and tweedy Creed...
...still unsure of its future last week. Anyone could make trade headlines with an idea. Three weeks ago Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune announced a $7,500 design prize with the idea of making Chicago the new Paris. London, with Worth, Stiebel, Hartnell, Lachasse and the repatriated Captain Molyneux, was after the business. Even Berlin sent photographs of eight new Nazi numbers (three of them for summer wear). And Editor Carmel Snow talked of her magazine (200,000-pulse circulation) as the logical medium for the job of discovering the trend. Paris was silent...