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ELON OF CALIFORNIA DOES NOT MAKE SWIMWEAR FOR JUST ANYBODY
On the sands at the Children's Pool in La Jolla, Debbie Murphy is kneeling next to a pile of very expensive bathing suits. At her side stand two young women, each quite tall and shapely, one a reigning beauty queen - Miss Greater San Diego, 1983. Murphy tosses a flowing, bright-orange cloak and a scrap of white fabric to the
beauty queen, who pulls the cloak over her fluffy long curls. Gathered at the neck, the garment hangs down to her heels and creates a sort of wearable dressing room. Under its cover, the girl wriggles. A moment later she re- moves the cloak to reveal a scanty white bathing suit, which more than anything resembles underwear. Last BY JEANNETTE DeWYZE
year celebrity model Cheryl Tiegs wore this very suit on the cover of Sports Illustrated's much ballyhooed annual swimwear issue; since then thousands upon thousands of women across America have paid fifty-eight dollars to own one. And every copy has been manufactured at a factory at (continued on page ]o