While in Paris, Lucy decides she must have a ‘Jacques Marcel’ dress. Ricky refuses, of course, but gives in when Lucy goes on a fake hunger strike. Ricky eventually finds out she is faking and to get even hires a tailor to create a fake “Jacques Marcel” dress made from a potato sack. Fred gets one for Ethel too. The girls walk around in their burlap knock-offs with feedbag hats like queens but while taking coffee at a café, Jacques Marcel sees the gowns and dresses his models in similar fashion. Lucy and Ethel were the originators, but they burned the originals!
One of my favorite episodes.