Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris still wears its crown as queen of fashion, though in recent years others have tried to knock it off. But no one ever challenged Parisian dressmakers' sovereignty over Parisians themselves-until last week. At the Printemps department store, a sort of French Macy's, Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops...
...canny British dress manufacturer, Leslie Berker, and his designer, Norman Hartnell-who styles the royal family-invaded the land of haute couture in its softest spot, the middle-class Frenchwoman who can't afford the steep price of Parisian designers and usually makes her own clothes or wrangles with wrangly little dressmakers. French firms that manufacture readymade medium-priced dresses were caught with their patterns down...
...unconcerned. This summer, as in every summer, the rich fled screeching, scorching Cairo and were relaxing in cool Alexandria or, like their King, on the Riviera. When they return to Cairo later in the fall, their womenfolk diamond-studded and sheathed in Parisian gowns, they will take up life in a small world of their own, which moves between exclusive clubs, theaters and palaces. They own most of Egypt's land, pay ludicrously small taxes...
...recently asked for a book bound in human skin. Foyle sent out his scouts, within a week shipped her a copy of French Novelist Eugène Sue's Vignettes les Mystères de Paris, printed in 1843 and bound in skin from the shoulders of his Parisian mistress, as she had directed in her will. Price: $28. Says William Foyle: "It's an interesting business, bookselling...
People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...