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Your cover is just what little Eva has been waiting for. Señora Perón will consider it a sweeter present than a new Dior gown...
...Hearth. Evita spends $40,000 or more a year just for dresses from Paris' top designers.*In 1950, she ordered gowns from Balmain, Dior, Fath and Rochas. She has the furs of a czarina, the jewels of a maharani. Last year Perón took a fancy to a U.S. visitor and volunteered to show him around the presidential mansion. While displaying roomful after roomful of Evita's clothes the President guffawed: "Not exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed...
Last week Oudtshoorn's feather business was in the midst of a new boom. Fashion had brought the ostrich plume back to style. In Paris, Christian Dior and other high fashion designers were trimming hats with ostrich feathers. So was Manhattan's Lily Daché, who explained quite simply: "It was time for the ostrich feather to return." Oudtshoorn's farmers did not question the verdict; they crowded into the feather auction hall, offered their pluckings to dealers so sharp-eyed that they could identify at a glance the feathers from any one of 200 farms. Bids...
Josephine, 45, who got her start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed...
Married. His Imperial Majesty, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, 31, Shahinshah (King of Kings) of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin...