Paris fashion shifts as couture loses grip on era
In Paris a new fashion mood replaces couture snobbery as social barriers fade and wearable style dominates. Designers like Saint Laurent Patou Louis Feraud face audacious shifts away from expensive showpieces toward accessible ready to wear appealing to buyers from around the world arriving in Paris in April to source fashion at compelling prices.
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Paris couture shifts to simple wearable fall fashion 1971
Paris designers for fall-winter 1971 translate the mood into simple wearable couture aimed at mass appeal. Couture houses license originals to American manufacturers to reproduce under their label, offering potential millions from a single outfit while designers complain of being cheated by parity of profits.
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Couture shifts as U S boutiques plan fashion future
Chronicle Telegram notes designers eye United States boutique openings as couture splinters into accessible, entertaining fashion. Dior and Lanvin explore big cities while Saint Laurent signals couture’s playful evolution with bold, street-inspired trends and practical weekender wardrobes built from washable polyester knits for travel.
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Hot trays keep babies warm in air conditioned x ray room
Two radiologists at C S Mott Children’s Hospital use electric hot trays to maintain newborn temperatures during lengthy x ray exams in an air conditioned department. In a test of nine infants, five showed no temperature drop and four had only a one degree fall while trays, insulated and grounded, were used on either side of the child.
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