The Daily Record

MOST DARING NECKLINE
Bosom
Is
Almost
Bared
By
Fashion
By BARBARA MILLER
PARIS (IP) - Fashion czar Christian Dior almost bared the feminine bosom today with the most daring evening neckline in years.
At the same time he banished it from sight by day.
Dior unveiled a new "A" line for 1955 spring fashions at his swank showing that put him on both sides of the fence in the great battle of the bosom.
The "A" line for day wear begins at the neck with a silhouette that flares out like the letter "A" to the hemline, completely by-passing the bosom.
But for night his wide-plunging "y" necklines barely contained the bosom, pushed almost up to shoulder height by breathlessly tight corseting.
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In the daytime line the rigid corseting contained the bust and torso in an unbroken line. Skirts started from the hip-bone or lower and fell to just below the knee as last year.

For cocktail and night wear skirt lengths dropped by stages to the ankle.

'SENSITIVE EVOLUTION'

"A sensitive evolution not a revolution," was how Dior described his new "A" line which seemed much more graceful than last year's ill-fitting sheath.

Before the Dior showing the score stood at three to one in favor of bringing back the bosom which flattened last year.

The feminists thus far are Lucile Menguin, Jean Patou and Pierre Balmain. Jacques Heim, only exponent of the 1954 flat look, hangs his shapeless sheaths from the shoulder without a bulge or indentation.