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...pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Lift your skirt just a little higher there, queenie" is the most used query of CRIMSON photographers. The reply is almost always in the affirmative. It seems that the combination of camera and press card melts females at sight and has ever been known to disarm a dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Vernal Competitions Dawn | 2/25/1948 | See Source »

Reformation. In Honolulu, Tattoo Artist Urbano Manipon got a jail sentence for sketching a naked girl on a minor's arm, got the sentence suspended when he added a hula skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Despite Dior's deviation, other Paris dressmakers grimly carried on the New Look's long skirts, pinched waists, and other handicaps to normal activity. Example: heavy "riding habit" skirts that weigh six pounds. The hobble skirt was everywhere, usually split to the knee to leave the wearers some power of locomotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: The New Old Look | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...since Ingrid Bergman adopted the "feather bob" in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has the clipped hair-do made such invesds on styleconscions Annex girls. Already battered by fashton's long skirt collct many Cliffe-dwellers faced the latest decrea with stold resignation and inside up inside local beauty salous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Sweeping the Nation . . . | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

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