It was mentioned in a 50′s fashion documentary that models didn’t cross legs as they walked down the catwalk… they glided. As far as fashion is concerned it sums up the decade – the women simply glided through it. A dress has the magical effect of making a woman look utterly feminine, but the spell is broken when she wears those two-legged things.

From Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico: ” …Mrs Harris had attained her paradise. She was in a state of dreamed-for and longed-for bliss. All of the hardships, the sacrifices, the economies and hungers and doing-without she had undergone faded into insignificance. Buying a Paris dress was surely the most wonderful thing that could happen to a woman.”

“I created flower women, with tiny waists like stems and skirts billowing out like petals.” Christian Dior

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