America Responded When Dior Marginalized the Bust Line… (Tempo Magazine, 1954)

Christian Dior, the Frenchman who covered up women’s legs with his post-war ‘New Look’, has now decided that the female bosom must go. In fact, if Dior has his way, the feminine figure itself will go – the bust flattened to the backbone, the wasp-waist a thing of the past, the fair curve destined to be replaced by the washboard look of the 20s.