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...style, says Cartier-Bresson, requires "a velvet hand, a hawk's eye." Carrying a single camera covered with black tape to make it as unobtrusive as possible, he has managed to compress life into 35-mm. frames. He calls himself a "discoverer" and says that his success "depends on intuition, very quick guessing. When you take a good picture, it jumps out, like an orgasm...
...brand-new outrageous variety, cut higher, tighter and altogether skimpier than anything Ruby Keeler ever kicked in (see THE THEATER). No longer fashioned of sturdy standards like denim and broadcloth, the current crop is made of flashier stuff-mink and monkey fur, silk and satin, calfskin, chiffon and cut velvet. The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke. But short shorts are no joke; they are serious business, and women in major European and U.S. cities are currently risking their fashion reputations-and severe frostbite-to wear them...
...Angeles' Yves St. Laurent boutique is selling out every shipment that arrives; the favorite is a slightly flared, black velvet model ($60), with satin and crepe versions ($50) coming up fast. Actress Ursula Andress dines out in her bronze velvet shorts, and Raquel Welch had a special pair in white matte jersey run up for her to take on location in Spain. Staider ladies are rushing L.A.'s May Co. department store for their dotted-swiss knit mini over shorts ($26) or settling for Magnin's shorts-and-sweater outfit...
...Manhattan, a tiny, green velvet-walled shop called "i" is only five weeks old and already doing close to $3,000 business a week in items like Quince Seed Conditioner ($3), Papaya Night Cream ($9.50) and Wild Raisin Eye Shadow ($5). Co-Owners Sandy Oringer and Lois Muller started out with a mailorder offer-$2 for a jar of strawberry cleansing cream, grapefruit freshener and lemon moisturizer-that drew such response that they formulated an entire line of raw-juice and oil-based cosmetics and found a chemist to put it together...
...third level, jeans are reasonably priced-if not downright cheap. Lees, for example, makes a velvet-corduroy version for $11 that comes in a dozen colors, is available either straight-legged or bell-bottomed, and is slow to sit out or bag at the knees. There is another advantage. Jeans were originally cut only for men and, inexplicably-despite mass sales to women-still are. Thus there is a choice in length of leg along with waist size, making alterations virtually unnecessary...