ROLLING my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white WITCH, as she murmured incantations, was CERTAINLY a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly SOOTHING.
The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl KNOWS that. High-waisted trousers give you long LEGS and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want.
When I moved to New YORKCITY from TEXAS at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and SKIRTS, wool trousers occasionally, and heels ALWAYS.
Although I NEVER marched through the STREETS shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of CHINA at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful THING and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic ACHIEVEMENT.