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...Dior flat look-the French improvement on nature's design for a woman: If a stylist directs a woman to be flat one year and curved another year, and in each case offers the reason that the woman looks best that way, the stylist has to be wrong one of the times. If he is now wrong, why obey him ? If he was wrong before, then he is subject to error, and may be wrong still; why obey him? . . . If I had a wife, I'd beat her for this sheeplike following of irresponsible leaders...
Christian Dior should be hanged from the nearest coat hanger, and so should American designers who slavishly follow the dictates of Paris when their own work is so much more attractive, becoming, wearable and original, without being fantastic, as so many French models...
...Anger with this man Dior forced me to this bit of verse...
...like to tar and feather Dior, and run him out of town. Why did he have to build me up just to let me down? I can hang my head, and drop my bra and appear a flattened frump, But Christian, tell me dear, how do I batten down the rump...
...After the first shocked reports of Dior's new collection, fashion editors decided that he had not, after all, declared total war (TIME, Aug. 16). For developments showing that Dior is prepared both to reshape the female form and leave it alone, see cuts...