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...have just found out there is no Santa Claus and since you are the next best person, I thought I would write to you and ask for a plaid dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Silence | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...pants and coat, no garters, few hats. For the correctly dressed student, if any, Brooks Brothers, Rogers Peet, and others, show brown slacks and gray coats, or vice versa. Nor are the slacks plain, by any means--brown herringbones, for instance, with a gray coat having a large green plaid and bellows pockets. White shoes, brown hat with black band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Depression | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Marguerite A. ("Missy") Le Hand, youngish, grey-haired private secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the past 14 years, celebrated the beginning of her first extended vacation in four years by slipping into a bright plaid dress and boarding the S. S. Manhattan for Europe. With her on the six-week trip went Grace Tully, stenographer to the President. Said Private Secretary Le Hand : "There are lots of things I never know about until I see them in the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...nobbily dressed bachelor with a flair for plaid suits, Glenn Martin lives in Washington with his mother. He also has living quarters at the plant 45 mi. away where he often stays days at a time. From his company he receives a modest salary of $16,200 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Martin Into Market | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors navy blue leads black for street wear; "string color," a tannish off-white, is most popular for sports. ¶ Elaborate gloves, jeweled, of wool, taffeta, velvet, net, are shown in most collections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Higher Hats, Lower Waists | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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