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...those eleven years, say Dr. Jean E. Paquin and his colleagues, 1,030 deliveries were by caesarean section-one out of every 35. For 38 of the women, it was their fourth delivery by this means; for twelve, it was the fifth; for four, the sixth; for one, the seventh; and for two, the eighth...
...success, Paris couture in general is in parlous economic shape. Eastern European markets (except for exiled royalty) have dried up. Currency and import restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays, few couturiers do much better than break even...
...Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that the new styles were not to be released until Sept. 15. Editor Snow, who was in Paris...
...French took too much notice. Top designers-Paquin, Schiaparelli, Maggy Rouff, et al.-had all promised to attend the show. But as the beauteous California models paraded in their bathing suits and dresses before buyers and fashion writers, there was not a big-name designer among the oglers. They had decided that California's bold publicity stunt threatened too much competition. But Georges Berheim, manager of Paris' huge Galeries Lafayette department store, cried: "Sensational! I would like to buy the whole collection...
...summer solstice, the year's shortest night, seemed short indeed to the diplomats and Parisian socialites passing the illuminated Vendome column. They pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen hanging around Suite 116 at the Hotel Meurice, watching the champagne buckets go by toward the room where Secretary Byrnes was entertaining Minister Molotov. In time the buckets came out empty-but no news came with them. Two U.S. Army privates guarded Byrnes's door, and just to be sure...