Fashion: Flat Contradiction

Even if she has the right amounts of fashion flair and cash to aspire to the lists of the best-dressed, the woman with the wrong amount of bosom will never make it. Couturiers do not design for the bosomy woman; her body disrupts the line of their clothes. Fashion photographers have no use for her; she throws unseemly shadows. In style-conscious Manhattan, the woman with breasts is out; the flat-chested look has been in for almost as long as men have been designing women's clothes, and in with a vengeance ever since 1957's...

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