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...fall day three years ago, Editor Elliott impulsively stepped into a Madison Avenue shop and bought his wife Deirdre a size 10 dress for $40. It was. he recalls, a black taffeta with puffy short sleeves, a full skirt and stringlike belt...
...Wedding Costume. Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place...
There are checks and stripes and flowery prints, and even polka-dot underwear. And 1955's summer clothes are flexible, as the result of a continuing boom in "separates." There are a thousand different kinds of blouses that look as well with a skirt at a dinner party as with Bermuda shorts at a picnic. In California, bathing-suit makers Cole and Rose Marie Reid have gone so far as to put out "evening convertibles"-swimsuits that can be made into evening dresses by adding fluffy tulle skirts. Price...
...pleasant things here too. Some of the scenes have a Lili-like lilt. One of the ballets, in which Michael gives Leslie a cooking lesson in the palace kitchen, is a sightly romp. The color is fresh and bright. Cinderella's dress for the ball is wonderful-the skirt looks like a frilly igloo* -and Leslie wears it as a princess should. And when all else fails, there is Keenan Wynn. As somebody called Kovin, a confidant of the prince, poor Keenan has practically nothing to do all through the picture except to stride up and down...
...Edward R. Murrow of CBS. Franco, after being urged to reconsider, agreed to an appointment, but by that time Lewis had had enough. Snapped he: "It's not fair for a Senator to use her entrée for commercial purposes. Why does Murrow have to use a skirt who is a Senator?" Then Fulton Lewis huffily left Spain-only 72 hours after he had arrived...