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From Yuri Zhukov, Pravda's expert on the U.S., Russian women got the party line on the New Look. Longer skirts for U.S. women, Zhukov reported, were a desperate effort of industrialists to bolster the shaky American economy and stave off depression. He wrote: "There is no trick left...
Last week Honolulu stores sold grass skirts, wooden roses and jade jewelry, while traffic honked around neighboring Piggly Wiggly stores and office buildings which looked as if they had been moved, stone by stone, from the Midwest.
Girls who tried to navigate the sidewalk in front of the Indoor Athletic Building after Saturday's basketball game cast fearful looks at ominous puddles. One smart creature appeared in plaid slacks. The mushy street was just too much for long skirts and open-toed shoes.
This was the last big weekend for the little boys who scramble for pennies along the trolley route from Yale out to the Bowl. The open trolleys, with raccoon coats and windswept skirts, clinging to the sides, are officially a thing of the past. People just don't take the...
The Duke & Duchess of Windsor, arriving in Manhattan for yet another vacation, were met by 50-odd reporters and cameramen, but refused to be stampeded. Said the Duke: the wedding-invitation thing was "purely personal and a family matter." The Duchess-in navy blue coachman suit with a compromise-length...