Friday, 11 April 2014

Life April 9 1951 Page 112

Ready-to-wear Flowers
continued on page 114
FLOWERS CONTINUED 
OUTSIZE ROSE measuring 15 inches across is American copy (Aster, $15.00) of French design. French flowers are most original and also most expensive. Very small, intricate flowers are imported from Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia. 
DAFFODIL CUFFS of doeskin gloves (Superb, $75.00), copied from Balmain design, are French-made. Cheapest imported flowers come from Japan, where artificial flower production has become important part of postwar economy. 
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slims waist famous all-elastic 
Adjustable Waist prevents that pinched feeling 
slims hips “magic diamonds” 
concentrate control, make hips a whole size smaller.
slims thighline diamonds taper control, 
ease tension, allow freedom of motion.
“the slimmingest girdle you’ve ever worn”
NEMO Circlet*
There’s a Circlet for every fiqure type. Colours: Black, White, Pink $10.00 to $25.00
Kops Bros., New York.
Makers of “the fittingest foundations you’ve ever worn!”
*Circlet T.M. Reg. Pat. Appl. for
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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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