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Sound Trucks & Spielers. For three weeks, Frenchmen had been following the Tour. Truce in Indo-China, terrorism in Morocco, even Fashion Designer Dior's offensive against the bosom all receded while the nation concentrated on the biggest bike race in the world. Nearly 20 million people turned out to see the bikes go by. It was more than a sporting event, it was a triumph of showmanship-as French as a march on the Bastille or a meal with snails...
...pearl grey, upholstered, perfumed room in Paris' Avenue Montaigne, the buyers broke into a storm of bravos. Soon the news was pouring out to a waiting world: "Christian Dior today dropped the waistline to the hips, flattened the bust and sent women's fashions back to the Jazz Age of the 1920s . . . Dior has abolished bosoms...
...biggest fashion change since the time seven years ago when the same Christian Dior decreed the "New Look." The news was calculated to alarm housewives, delight dress merchants and throw husbands into mumbling despondency. For no amount of patching, mending or letting out, trimming, tacking or tucking, no gusset, gore, or gather could make last year's dress into this fall's Dior mode. In upstairs closets from Spokane to Athens, Copenhagen to Rome, millions of dresses would suddenly become "that old thing," their value destroyed with a swiftness and efficiency that no moth could hope to match...
Cinnamon-skinned girls in Dior dresses, starchy diplomats and officers sparkling with gold braid gathered one night last week in the majestic, tile-floored great hall of the Presidential Palace in Portau-Prince. The occasion: a ball in honor of Jamaica's visiting Governor Sir Hugh Foot and Lady Foot. Just at 10, the orchestra blared out a march, and Lady Foot entered the room on the arm of a huge, kingly-looking black man resplendent in white tie, tails and full decorations. His Excellency Paul Eugene Magloire (pronounced mah-glwar), President of the Republic of Haiti and host...
Radcliffe's rejection of the Dior lift has put the fashion-conscious young lady on a par with college women in the east. Her insistence on comfort over submission has also won her the hearts of eastern college males. When weekends are cold, every stout-hearted man would like to have his date sensibly rather than sexily dressed. That way they both have no worries...