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...Cadillac has a new sports convertible, the six-passenger El Dorado which, at $7,500, is the U.S.'s highest-priced mass-production car. It has a "wraparound" windshield that sweeps to the sides, wire wheels, and an Orion top that folds back under a steel cover. Cadillac's regular 1953 line has a wider, more massive hood and headlight visors that lengthen the fender line; prices are the same as in 1952 ($3,571 to $5,620). Optional: air conditioning, wire wheels or wire-wheel hubcaps, power steering, and an "autronic eye" control that dims headlights automatically...
Like the 1953 Dodge (TIME, Oct. 27), the 20 new models of the Chrysler line have smoother lines than the 1952s, with one-piece "wraparound" windshields and rounded corners at the top of the body. Though the car is an inch lower, head room has been increased. Visibility has been improved with 2 sq. ft. more glass area; the trunk compartment has 44% more luggage space. To such standard Chrysler extras as power steering, there will be added a new one: air conditioning...
...Baltimore last week, the true drape wore his hair seaweed-long. His shirt was pastel pink and buttoned at the throat (no tie); the jacket was loose, wraparound and without lapels. But the distinctive mark was the black zaks-slacks, that is, that are sharply nipped at the bottom to a narrow cuff. The effect was something between a sagging pair of plus fours and badly fitting jodhpurs...
...lowering hems. So was Manhattan's Henri Bendel, who was showing ankle-length skirts and padded hips. Nettie Rosenstein, the top designer of the mass-producing Seventh Avenue factories, was going in for padding and long skirts. Seventh Avenue's Harriet Harra went even further with a "wraparound" cocktail suit which would have made an Egyptian mummy feel at home. But Russian-born, beautiful Valentina (Mme. George Schlee) was almost as conservative as Sophie. Her hems were down slightly and her décolletage was down a lot. Said Valentina: "The bozoom ees half-exposed, jost enoff...
...coveted opening night, suggested that she sing her favorite role, Lakmé. Last week Pons fans were surprised to see that her once-frail body had plumped up to 114 lbs., was suntanned to the right shade for her Indian role. From India she had returned with twelve saris (wraparound Hindu dresses), six of which Dressmaker Valentina wrapped into costumes for Lakmé. Sharing Lily's backstage dressing room were three long-haired Tibetan dogs named Wah-ping, Shun-lo and Gobi (who recently made an appearance with Lotte Lehmann in a San Francisco performance of Der Rosenkavalier). Pons...