Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 48

Permanent tapered pleats...deep and dancing at your ankles...small where your waist is beautiful. Even when you are still, it seams set to music. Carter’s nylon tricot is a butterfly wing...a diaphanous thing...yet it will suds or pack without harm.

Carter’s nylon sunburst* yes...made by the maker’s of Carter’s famous baby clothes.

COLORS: Desert rose, blue orchid, laurel white. Sizes 32 to 38, $35.00. At good stores. For store near you, write The William Carter Co., Needham Heights, Mass. 

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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?