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...Paris, U.S. buyers last week crowded into Dressmaker Christian Dior's salon for the spring showing. They hoped once again to be agreeably shocked by the man whose long hemlines last year helped create the New Look (TIME, Sept. 15). As the first models went by, the buyers gasped. Dior had veered away from the New Look...
...center of Paris, the pilgrims were joined by a shock troop of art students in weird disguises (see cut). In the afternoon, the proprietors of all the Paris dress houses threw parties for their midinettes (Christian Dior gave his on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower). The spirit of the occasion was best summarized by one reveler who threw a Camembert, in just the right state of decomposition, up to the ceiling; there it stuck, slowly dripping cheese on the gaiety below...
Designer Christian Dior, who claims to have brought about the fall of the hemline, told an inquiring Los Angeles reporter that the cocktail-gown neckline should be "low enough to be attractive, but not low enough to be indecent."* Just where is that boundary? "That," philosophized Designer Dior, "is a philosophical question...
...make matters warmer for those trying to take Paris or leave it alone, Christian Dior hustled to the U.S. last week to accept an award from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus Co. for his "outstanding service" to the clothing industry. For the counter-revolutionists he had a well-bred sneer. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion- very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions...
...seam tape. Said Harper's Bazaar airily: "Clear your closet and get your clothes into the hands of those who can use them [in Europe]." But the dresses most likely to be sought would probably be closer to Sophie Gimbel's ideas than to Dior...