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...exercise sandal, a wooden-soled scuff with the added attraction of a raised ridge at toe level, which is designed to slim ankles and strengthen leg muscles. The Scholl sandals tend to pitch the wearer forward, but Cecil Beaton does not care. Neither do Scholl-shod Jackie Onassis, Jean Shrimpton and all of England's Royal Ballet Company. Greta Garbo clomps around sidewalks in Swedish clogs; so do Dustin Hoffman and the trapeze troupe from Ringling Bros, circus...
...politicians, editors, publishers and tuned-in businessmen are all intensely curious about her. Gloria is not only a successful freelance writer and contributing editor of New York magazine; she is also a trim, undeniably female, blonde-streaked brunette who has been described as "the thinking man's Jean Shrimpton." She does something for her soft suits and clinging dresses, has legs worthy of her miniskirts, and a brain that keeps conversation lively with out getting tricky...
With Brother Chuck's marriage to Lynda Bird now accomplished, Trenny Robb, 20, has decamped from Milwaukee to have her own shot at the big time in New York. "I'd like to be a model like Jean Shrimpton," she said, "but not for long. My real goal in life is to design dresses." Trenny is already set for a modeling shot in the April issue of Ladies' Home Journal, and she has been signed on as a junior model by the top-ranked Ford agency. "I would hire her even if she had two heads," said...
...Ever since she was born she has had this style of her own; she has never had to copy anybody," says her approving mother. British Photographer David Bailey, whose early pictures of Jean Shrimpton helped launch her career and who recently shot Penelope for London's Sunday Mirror, concurs. "She's really weird," he says, "almost a caricature of a model. She is a completely original-looking girl, and that is such a nice shock these days...
...Twiggy, who figured to be an odds-on favorite, finished a very flat tenth. In front of her were a couple of more familiar matrons: Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor. Ahead of them came Jacqueline Kennedy. At the top by a wide margin: Britain's favorite model, Jean Shrimpton, 24, who pointed unerringly to her advantage over the likes of the Twig: "I'm not so thin...