The solos were rendered by Mesdames Sherrington and Patey, and Messrs. Vernon Rigby and Santley.
More than 70% of those who come under the knife now earn less than $50,000 a year.The second big new market is in "well-being"—whole treatment systems that cover beauty, exercise and diet, including visits to spas, salons and clubs, and hark back to the early days of Mesdames Arden and Rubinstein.
Mesdames Chirac and Giscard d'Estaing probably have tastes honed over the state banqueting table and may well have overlooked our next course when they visited.
Presumably, Mesdames Horner and Rowe thought this separation beyond their remit.
It would be odd if Mesdames Aubry and Guigou did not have presidential ambitions of their own to be revealed, no doubt, when the time is ripe.
Mostly what you get are Messieurs and Mesdames Toutlemondes biking, hiking, wearing out the bean bags around the pool at La Prade, picnicking on the side of the road (the hotel prepares hampers of foie-gras-stuffed goose neck and fresh sheep's cheese with black-cherry jam), sunning and swimming.
The book is about exile: both Binh's aching distance from his native Saigon and his two Mesdames' cheerful distance from America.
Their husbands' chief favorites, however — Mesdames de Montespan, de Pompadour, and du Barry (a ravishing former prostitute with appalling manners who was still plying her trade with the old Louis XV when Antoinette arrived at court) — were glittering cynosures whose power no one dared to ignore.
Like my Mesdames, they can be born elsewhere and then taken abroad.
Thus far in his career, Scaasi — who began life in Montreal as Arnold Isaacs and, upon entering the fashion business, reversed the spelling of his last name to Italianate effect — has made clothes for five First Ladies: the Mesdames Eisenhower, Kennedy, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II.
