Occasionally the lissome ladies who make their living modeling the latest French fashions manage to borrow a dress from their employers for an evening of lend-lease delight at Maxim's. But for the most part, the Paris mannequin's career is one of exhausting routine, small compensation and worry over the future.
To better the lot of her sisters in satin, two years ago Lucie Daouphars, an almond-eyed part-time Dior mannequin who calls herself Lucky ("It pronounces Looky, as in Looky Strike"), organized L'Association Mutuelle des Mannequins de France. For dues of $7 a year, the association undertook to provide its members with free...
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