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This year's clothes are simpler and more wearable than in many years. With no single New Look, the fashions show a great deal of variety. Waistlines wander from bust (Laroche) to hip (Dior); necklines are generally bare. Pleats are emphasized in Nina Ricci's dresses and evening gowns. Suits are sometimes only suits, but often, as with Pierre Cardin, they turn out to be dresses with jackets. Several leading houses emphasized lounging pants, among them Dior, which designed a number of lounging costumes for formal evening wear. About the only thing the designers agreed on was that...
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject, from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the flaccid 20th-century...
...Nina Epton-World...
...would deny that they are consummate kiss-and-tell artists. Over the centuries, they have told all in diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and the social chronicles of boudoir, salon and brothel. With one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, British Author Nina Epton scans the Gallic love parade in an amusing though helter-skelter review...
...vanity. A few, such as models and actresses, need them for professional reasons. Among them: Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1951), Hollywood's Deborah Kerr, Ann Sothern, Debra Paget. Since the lenses can be tinted, they came in handy for turning grey-eyed Nina Foch (a regular wearer anyway) into a brown-eyed Egyptian in The Ten Commandments...