Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 126/127

Take It on Your Travels

Photos by LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE

· Above: The dress for a thousand and one summer afternoons and evenings-black Moygashel Irish linen that parts like a coat over a black silk and pleated Chantilly lace underskirt. By Jane Derby. About $140.00.

Henri Bendel; Kaufmann's; Neiman-Marcus. Palizzio shoes. Alba nylon stockings. Donated by Miss Derby, this dress will be one of the prizes awarded at the Fourth Annual "Salute to Summer" cocktail party at the Waldorf-Astoria on May 25, for the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. 

KODACHROME BY LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE
· Opposite: Copied from an old combing coat, a beach coat cut to mid-thigh, in Celanese acetate rayon sharkskin with vines of passementerie. By Carolyn Schnurer. About $25.00. Her strapless, black cotton satin bathing suit underneath, about $20.00.
Both, at Best; Dayton's, Minneapolis; Famous-Barr: Julius Garfinckel. Monet earrings. Pale "Camellia" powder and vivid "Azalea" lipstick, by Schiaparelli. 
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The average price of a new home then was $9000 about 2.56 times the yearly average wage of $3510.  Which was about 2.34 times the price of a new car $1500.  Today?

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