Visitors to the television exhibition at Olympia this year crowd to see the fashion parades which are daily televised. "While all marvel at the latest instruments and admire or otherwise the gorgeous array of frocks seen upon the television screen, few realize that a word of praise might be given to the mannequins who Wear them. Yet they should be highly praised and particularly by menfolk who firmly believe that women "take al? day" to change their frocks.
These girls at Radiolympia, who must of course appear perfectly groomed and calm before the camera, are indeed quick-change artists, One of them has 50 yards to go to her dressing-room from the set and 50 yards to go back to the camera. In the interval of going and returning, she must take-off one frock and put on another. She completes the change in exactly two minutes and three seconds But the record change of dress—this time the set was nearer the dressing-rooms, so that there was less distance to run—is 27 seconds!
The organizers of Olympia's television fashion parades are Harold Plaister and. Ken Eggar, both ex-racing motorists. What they don't know about speed just isn't worth knowing. They time every change with their racing stop-watches, so that the parade ds really continuous
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