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Near the southern coast is the port city of Saigon, with its teeming, clamorous, shop-filled alleyways, its broad, treelined, Frenchified boulevards overflowing with beautiful fragile girls, like exotic moths in their flowing skirts split at the waist over trousers of silken gauze. Saigon's wealthy exporters deal in rice...
The new lines, "the oblique," "the zig-zag," and "the spiral," work at creating what the designers call "body-conscious shape." Oblique seams, side fastenings and spiral back wrappings encircle the body; simple little dresses are diagonally, often dizzily, detailed by wildly flying panels, bias cuts, tricky scarf necklines. Even...
Line Spies. Cardin shortens his suit jackets and flares his skirts, even forsakes his trademark swing coats for a slimmer, fitted model. Grės, who has done more through the years for draped gowns than anyone since Phidias, keeps the soft shoulder line and low-set sleeve but lets...
Children's fashions, in which Italians are tops, turn rather romantic too. Zingone shows a boy's overcoat with a short tartan cape and a terribly clubby suit (they'd love it at Princeton) with suede torso, checked tweed cuffs and collar. Little-girl styles are more...
Less expensive are The Seven (a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge...