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Tassell, said Sheppard, "denied absolutely" that he had closed his factory for a week just to make Mrs. Kennedy's India wardrobe, and "feebly" denied that he had made up a special version of his Beauvais embroidered ball gown with flowers just on the long skirt. Explained Sheppard: "Orders from Mrs. Kennedy are accompanied usually by a polite note asking the store or manufacturer please not to tell." But somebody "is always sure to make somebody promise not to breathe a word, and that somebody is hot on the telephone to Mata Hari in a few minutes...
...belted waist was in and so was the welt-seamed skirt that whirls like a skater's costume. Hemlines stayed put. The buyers' favorites were Givenchy's high bustline, soft-shouldered dresses and Balenciaga's short shrug jackets. A hemstitch away in popularity: Yves St. Laurent's "cowboy look" (sombreros, neckerchiefs), and Marc Bohan's Dior evening gowns that plunge front and back. Copies, adaptations and custom reproductions will be ready in U.S. shops this month...
...love you any more," she protests wearily. "Be quiet," he mutters hoarsely, tugging at her skirt...
Joan put a sweater and skirt over her dress, a fur stole across her shoulders and crossed the border in a friend's car. Her husband had been given permission to make a brief visit to the Hamburg Opera. Heinrich turned the key on the apartment and all their possessions, next morning boarded the Hamburg Express. Last week Heinrich sat proudly in the third row of the Hannover Opera House watching his wife give a startlingly vivid performance in Alban Berg's Lulu. Coloratura Carroll's flight had ended in the beginning of a fine new career...
...windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels. Dior's Marc Bohan, however, departed only slightly from the closed-Dior shape of the past. Although he lowered belts until they fetched up on the hips, Bohan stubbornly stuck to a squared-off silhouette ("Dior has squared the fanny," said Sheppard...