Word: slenderization
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...well make the boys a lot madder-is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging costumes, fortyish ladies don them for exercising. They even have a certain vogue among lady golfers preparing for chilly days on the course...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siecle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...
...upper gold tooth shines like a phosphorous eye when she opens her mouth to sing. The scimitar eyes may close, the slender hands seem to carve the phrases out of the choky nightclub air. And the voice, sweet and strong above the rhythm section, curls around the lyrics like a husky caress. The voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fin de siecle sets and costumes (TIME...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette, larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siècle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...