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Manhattan's Bloomingdale's puffed such items as quilted skirts, velveteen trousers (for "after skiing"), and powder-blue parkas embroidered with Alpine flowers described as "too pretty to be tucked in." At Saks Fifth Avenue, Sophie Gimbel paraded a ground-length after-skiing ensemble with stole (price: $129.85...
In some recent pictures, Betty Grable fans have had a hard time finding their girl beneath the ermine and the bustles. In this one, she appears in tights, slit skirts, and other examples of sensible Grable costume. Fortunately, the camera provides all the customers with seats well down front, just...
Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her...
Storm in Black & White. Gus Beale's test comes when a Negro pilot, member of a squadron that Washington has created merely to pacify pro-Negro opinion, is beaten up by a white colonel. The affair has nothing to do with racial prejudice, but before the next day is...
Columbia wasn't the only thing that went down the drain Saturday. The old, all-male cheering section also came to grief in a swirl of skirts and shrill cries of glee from thousands of female throats.