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...proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid's Metamorphoses (TIME, May 23, 1955), wears his scholarship as loosely as a toga, and occasionally carries colloquialism to the point of topical slanginess ("Imagine her fitted by Dior!"). Ovid, Humphries argues, would have done the same. In a faintly disguised account of his own liaisons about town (The Loves), Ovid sees a love affair in two lights-either as sunlit sensuality or as a kind of mock-heroic comedy...
Robert Vickrey is an excellent addition to your staff of cover artists; his portrait of M. Dior is in perfect harmony with your amusing article. Christian's perplexed expression confronted with oversized dressmaker's shears is superb...
...fitting sobriquet for TIME [March 4]-honored Christian Dior is, of course, "The Pied Piper of Hemlines...
...year Dior and his cohorts pass the word lo the American fashion industry that sheaths are the thing. Sheaths it is. Madame America fills her closets with sheaths, trims her figure appropriately, then what? Next year she finds she's supposed to zig where she used to zag. What to do? Send off the sheaths to the Salvation Army and engage a masseuse to rearrange her bumps...
...This year the word on Dior is: 'The line is free, free as the Paris air . . . free from making a choice between wide and narrow . . . free to wear or not to wear . . .' " This "line" is certainly going to play hell with the falsie business...