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Make every belt a cinch this year, make sweaters the norm for easy acceptance. Corduroy skirts look like wool in Brattle Sq., as well as anywhere else, and "six-footers" keep your collegiate as well as keep you warm. Hug yourself in a man's raincoat with the collar up...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Alcohol Craze Upsets F allFashions With Chic 'Dress to Drink' Spree | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

All this heavy jewelry and the increasingly feminine sweaters and skirts require pretty, polished shoes--and certainly no sneakers. Classrooms are in for a new era of neat loafers and slim low pumps, or the handsome British shoes and their imitations now flooding the market. Stockings are important; the woolly...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Radcliffe Girl Emphasizes Femininity In Switch From "Sloppy-Joe" Style | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

So read a paid advertisement last week in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. But more was involved than a change of name. The Hon. Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, second daughter of the 18th Baron Sempill (who is also a baronet), had always been a mannish sort of a girl. A brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Bit Different | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

This is what the fashion-conscious Radcliffe girl will wear as both New York and Paris, miming modern living with styles the rage of a quarter and half century ago, are inflating hips, deflating waists, and elating connoseurs of costume. Skirts have shrunk, blouses have balooned, and poodles have passed...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Insect Theme Dominates Fashions With 'Ant' Look | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

In evening wear, all stops were pulled out. Skirts have demurly lifted to reveal delicate ankles and web-work sandals set on spikes. Bat wing sleeves, an innovation of last year, are still with us. Not satisfied with strapless gowns, designers have also plunged necklines to various abdominal levels. Below...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Insect Theme Dominates Fashions With 'Ant' Look | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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