Modern Screen (Dec 1947 - Nov 1948)

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LETTER FROM THE FASHION EDITOR Dear You: Think Louella Parsons does a lot of party-going? You should have seen the Fashion Department in the last couple of weeks! This is the season when all the designers and manufacturers put out the red carpet, pop the champagne corks, and parade their winter collections for the fashion press. To give you an idea in one single week there were 132 — count 'em — 132 parties scheduled. We didn't make quite all of them, but we lunched, brunched and dined at the St. Regis, Ritz-Carlton, St. Moritz, Waldorf and practically every other glamorous spot in town — took notes on dozens of swoony fashions — met lots of exciting people. We had ourselves a time, period. To give you a mere hint — the Barbizon slip people threw a huge cocktail party for Marsha Hunt, Albert Drake, Faye Emerson and a couple of hundred other people . . . and then hosted the entire group at the theater to see the play of their choice. (We chose Faye Emerson and Louis Calhern in "The Play's the Thing.") Oleg Cassini had a cocktail party in his sophisticated new salon, and we somehow found ourselves visualizing Gene Tierney in everyone of the dramatic evening gowns he showed — wonder why? One of the cleverest fashion( shindigs was put on jointly by jewelry, scarf, glove and belt designers. They gave a very swanky party at the Pierre, and then sprang a surprise in the form of a movie screen on which a moving pen skillfully sketched fashion figures — a la the outof-the-inkwell cartoons. Then a beauteous model stepped from behind the screen, wearing the fashion sketched, and demonstrated the miracles which could be performed on it with accessory switches. Naturally, we can't describe all of our giddy doings — that would take pages. But we can tell you that the pick of the fashions we saw will be turning up . in forthcoming issues for you to wear. After all, the whole point of our partying is to snag the cutest fashions — the fastest — just for you. Connie Bartel the BRA... with highness and roundness separation and LIFT. All look like nature's GIFT. Buy a wardrobe of FLEXAIRE BRAS You'll look lovelier, more alluring, Insist on genuine FLEXEES • world's loveliest foundations •Reg. T. M. 79