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Casual dress may finally be acceptable in the workplace, but fashion designers are predicting a return to dressier styles for fall. So what is the appropriate work-wear uniform? Two fashion retailers are providing an easy answer this month. For its 50th anniversary, Ann Taylor is reintroducing the silk shirtdress, below, that made the retailer famous in 1954. The original pattern came from the founder's father, a dress wholesaler. For those who aspire to something hipper than this retro style, Express is betting on the sleek, sophisticated look, introducing a new line of fitted pants, sweaters and tailored jackets...
...faced her own credibility gap last week: how to be a President's wife and a thinking human being. Courageously establishing a precedent-the first fullscale, open-admission press conference to be given by a First Lady -Mrs. Ford tried hard to avoid ideological traps. Wearing a mustard shirtdress, she gracefully fielded the mandatory housekeeping questions. Inflation had hit the Fords, she acknowledged: "We don't eat as much steak or roast beef as the boys would like." And she spoke to Moms everywhere: "I'm dumbfounded the children have adjusted so well to the change...
Some bodies, of course, are better off concealed. Designers are unanimous in warning anyone with so much as an extra pound of flesh to stick to the old shirtdress. Steven Brody, one of the innovators of the Cadoro breastplate (see color pages), recalls with disdain an overendowed woman in a see-through blouse: "It was not appetizing. There she was, just bouncing along. Flippety flop." Designer Jon Haggins, himself a slim, trim 165 Ibs., adds that "our customer has to be between 19 and 35, with a firm body, not absolutely flat and not busty either...
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