Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 94/95


Under the Golden Sun of Egypt

Photos by RICHARD AVEDON
· More stole than ever before - silk surah used double and interlined to give it a dramatic hang, covering an area of twenty-seven feet in all (it measures nine by three). The stripes are in colors drawn from the desert- gold, white, black, brown, gray. By Brooke Cadwallader. $42.95. 
Bonwit Teller. The Bazaar's Bedouin earrings, by Mosell. Eyes dramatized by Maybelline 
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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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