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Karl Lagerfeld, the most aggressive exponent of the skirtless look, had bright, jaunty jackets that were nipped in at the waist. Claude Montana, still smarting from his disastrous debut as Lanvin's couturier in January, produced a rigorous collection dedicated to Andy Warhol. What he took from the painter was Popsicle colors and hard, clean lines. His tops were laser...
...became one of vaudeville's international stars; of a heart attack; in Southport, Australia. Kellerman outgrew her childhood bowleggedness and developed a figure that earned her such accolades as "the form divine" and "the diving Venus." In 1907 Kellerman shocked Boston by appearing at Revere Beach wearing a skirtless one-piece bathing suit and was promptly arrested for indecent exposure. On vaudeville stages in Europe and the U.S., Kellerman dived into a glass tank from heights of 75 ft.; she also starred in aquatic movies. In 1952 Kellerman's life story received a splashy MGM treatment...
...Wilma Montesi die? At first glance, it seemed she must have drowned. An attractive, 21-year-old girl, Wilma Montesi was found dead on the beach at Ostia, Rome's somewhat more elegant version of Coney Island, more than a year ago. The young brickworker who found her skirtless body was momentarily fascinated by the Teddy bears embroidered on her panties, but neither he nor anyone else at the time saw reason to question the official verdict: "Death by accidental drowning." Wilma, the police reasoned, had gone to Ostia in the gloomy April off-season to bathe her eczema...
B.V.D. sparked another style revolution in the '30s, when its publicity stills of Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in B.V.D. bathing trunks helped start the fad of topless swimming trunks for men. With the late Cinemactress Jean Harlow as a model, B.V.D. helped start the trend toward skirtless, one-piece bathing suits for women. But in 1934, Hollywood dealt men's underwear a near-mortal blow. In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable took off his shirt, and revealed that he wore no undershirt. Sales of men's underwear in the U.S. dropped 40% in a single year...
...director or writer or someone was not satisfied with Boston's justly famous articulation and had to substitute his own peculiar brand of midwestern accent is a mystery, as is the intent of one of the same gentlemen in allowing a girl from Boston in any decade to sway, skirtless, on a Bowery stage. Cambridge, at least, is not, and was never, like this. Durante is a mystery of sorts, too-but only in that it's a wonder he remains as funny as he does. As a matter of fact, the more you think about Durante, the more...