Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 66/67

SHOPPING BAZAAR

Photos by Hans Namuth

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page 66 SHOPPING 

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A foursome to keep you informed-a barometer, eight-day alarm clock, calendar and thermometer in a folding pigskin case. $136.00. Alfred Dunhill. 620 Fifth Avenue. 

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Cocktails for the newlyweds - a sterling silver shaker that holds just a convenient amount for two. By Reed and Barton, $25.00. Nelmor Jewelers, 901 Bergen Avenue. Jersey City, N. J. 

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Cards for the canasta playing traveler, in an imported long-grain goatskin snap case. By Loewe of Spain, in red, blue or green, $6.50. Michael of the Waldorf, 301 Park Avenue. 

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For a fox-hunting friend, a choice of quarry-the big fox. in hand-carved oak, a copy of an Old English newel post, $110.00. The little ceramic fox, $12.50. Smith and Watson, 20 East 55th. 

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A satiric commentary on life in our time. original pen and ink drawings by Saul Stein- berg. The one shown, 141/2" by 23", $200.00. Betty Parsons Gallery, 15 East 57th.

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A leather tobacco pouch that fills through the wide, zippered mouth and pours into the pipe through an outlet at the bottom. $1.50. Wilke's Nut Brown Burley, $3.00. Wilke Pipe Shop, 400 Madison Avenue.

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One of a limited number of chess sets designed and signed by Man Ray, the board in a grained plastic, the Martian-looking chess men in anodized aluminum $100.00. Gallery Hacker, 24 West 58th.

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A refreshing French liqueur for summer - Mirabelle de Lorraine, a clear plum brandy that's perfect with a fruit dessert $9.19 a fifth. M. Lehmann, 374 Park Avenue.

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YOU are invited to become a member of the Nelmor Sterling Club. Choose from Nelmor’s 221 patterns of world-renowned Sterling Silver by Towie Gorham, Heirloom, International. Reed and Barton, Lunt, Wallace, Kirk, Whiting, Watson, Smith, Tuttle, Alvin, Rogers.. Indicate the pattern you desire below. In a few days you will be "the proud owner of your chosen precious sterling. Pay $2.00 a month for one place setting. $4.00 a month for two place settings, etc. for most patterns. Pay no more than the nationally advertised price. No carrying charges. Each place setting fitted in free anti-tarnish silver roll. First payment is due after you receive your silver. Own and use your silver now - pay for it out of income. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 93

In the Shadow of the Sphinx

Photo by RICHARD AVEDON

· In this issue the Bazaar previews summer fashion with Egypt as the bake-drop. Under the cryptic gaze of the Sphinx at Gizeh we photographed, above, the afnet, the classic Egyptian headdress adapted to today by Lilly Dache in black organdie, cut circular, it fastens under the hair in back. $40.00. Jewels made of porcelain. and gilt beads, by Miriam Haskell-the wide flat collar, $39.50; earrings, $20.00; both, plus tax. For a perfume of great mystery, Coty's new revival, "Styx." All, I. Magnin.

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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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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 96/97

By the Great Pyramids at Gizeh

Photos by Richard Avedon
· Above: Shirt in white-on-white organdie; shorts in black Moygashel Irish linen. By Dorothy Cox. $35.00.
Henri Bendel. 

· Below: Dress in Stafford's silk surah, part kohl black and part white. By Claire McCardell. $49.95.

Lord and Taylor. Chiffon coif, by John Frederics.

· Opposite: Shirt in satiny white pique, with punchworked sleeves, about $30.00; gray Juilliard flannel shorts, about $18.00.

Both, by Arle. Peck and Peck; I. Magnin. Monet's hoop earrings. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 98/99

On the Banks of the Nile

Photos by RICHARD AVEDON

Opposite: In Paisley-printed Bates cotton, turquoise on cream, a dress with a corset-cover bodice - gored and shaped, with a low lace-edged neck. By Carolyn Schnurer. $25.00. 

Best. 

· Opposite: A corset-cover bodice in white cotton lawn, and crush-pleated knickers of flame red Everfast sailcloth. By Tina Leser. $45.00. 

Best. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 100/101

Along Luxor's Streets

Photos by RICHARD AVEDON
· Opposite: A one-piece playsuit in Everfast's pale blue lineny rayon and a jacket of blue and white organdie. $14.95 each.
By Lotte of Drewyn. Peck and Peck.

· top of page : Black topsail cloth shorts, $3.75, and a matching trainman's jacket, $6.95,

both stitched in white. Both, by White Stag. Lord and Taylor.

· Above left: White pique shorts, $9.95, and shirt, $11.95, and a black pique skirt, $17.95. By Arrowhead. 

· Above, right: Black Tootal linen shorts, $9.95, and a white linen cardigan, $12.95. By Haymaker. All, Saks Fifth Avenue. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 102/103

At the Feet of the Pharaohs

Photos by RICHARD AVEDON

· Opposite: Cork-colored linen, buttoned to just below the waist, pleated after that. By Arrowhead. $29.95.
Jay Thorpe. American Optical Polaroid sunglasses. 

· Opposite: Pale blue polka dots on tan silk taffeta, in a shirt-dress with an elasticized drawstring waist. By Star-Maid $45.00.
Bergdorf Goodman. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 104/105

Photos by RICHARD AVEDON

Egypt- 2000 B. C.

· Opposite: The temple of Karnak at Luxor, almost forty centuries old, its hypostyle hall upheld by more than a hundred columns of carved colored stone. Our model's swimsuit-shirred white nylon elasticized with Lastex. By Jantzen. $15.95.
Best. Martex towel. Vogue earrings.

Egypt-1951 A.D.
· Opposite: One of the BOAC planes that speed travelers from New York to Cairo (twenty-four flight hours all told). The coat is heavy beige Italian silk with three-quarter sleeves and a black taffeta lining. By Lo Balbo. $165.00.
Coat and custom-made hat, both at Bergdorf Goodman.

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 106/107/108/109

What and Where and When

Photos by  LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE
There's a Day when you'll live all day in shorts and a shirt.
· Left, a natural silk broadcloth shirt, about $20.00; shorts of the same, about $18.00.
Both, by B. H. Wragge, Bonwit Teller; Frost Brothers, San Antonio; Rich's. Striped organdie rebozo, by Mr. John. Straw espadrilles, by J. Mackey.

KODACHROME BY LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE

There's an Evening when you'll want something easy but terribly smart after you're back from the beach.
· Right, a Honan silk jacket geometrically taped and a sleeveless one-piece Honan silk coverall with tapered legs and a velvet belt. By B. H. Wragge. About $80.00 complete.

Bonwit Teller; Neiman-Marcus. Monet earrings. Here and on pages 108 and 109, the latest thing afoot this summer-kid clogs by Evins. Sparkling touches, Peggy Sage's new "Dark Blaze" Crystallin finish manicure polish and lipstick. 

DECOR BY ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS

KODACHROME BY LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE

  There's a House by the Sea, and, shown left, a perfect way to look at dinner there, a solid-gold look. Blouse in Mallinson rayon, about $8.00; matching skirt, about $13.00.
Both, by Toni Owen. De Pinna; L. S. Ayres; Julius Garfinckel. Tasseled scarf, by Glentex. The belt (and the opposite belt), by Midtown. The exactly right lipstick: Prince Matchabelli’s new "Coral Red."

KODACHROME BY LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE

 


There's a Garden in the Country, and, sown right, a perfect way to look at dinner there, cool and fresh as a white flower. Dress in Heller's newest rayon jersey, about $23.00.
By Lord's Sportswear. Peck and Peck; Best's Apparel, Seattle; Sakowitz, Houston. Coro earrings. Bracelet, by Nina Wolf. The exactly right lipstick: Harriet Hubbard Ayer's mint-flavored "Mint Rose." 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page110/111

KODACHROME BY LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE

Cowpoke Pants in Purple Corduroy and a sleeveless blue shantung shirt. The pants (note the length nipped off just above the anklebone) are in Crompton's wide-wale fabric, about $23.00; the Stafford silk shirt, about $17.00. 
Both, by Joset Walker. Saks Fifth Avenue; Julis Garfinckel; I. Magnin; Neiman-Marcus. Gilt ear hoops, by Monet. Kid sandals, by Bernardo. The exactly right lipstick-Jacqueline Cochran's "Pink Tang."
 

Flowered Irish Linen in an easy skirt that buttons down the front (the flowers are a pure blue, the ground is white), worn with a classic cap-sleeved blouse of slate blue Honan silk with a pale pink chiffon scarf sashed around the waist. About $60.00
for the three pieces. By Larry Aldrich. Saks Fifth Avenue; Joseph Magnin; William H. Block. Showering almost to the shoulder, earrings made of jingly, glittery gilt coins by Mosell.

Photos by LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE 

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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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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 132/133

Magical Properties

Photos by KAREN RADKAI

· Summer accessories and jewels that are absolute magic in a summer wardrobe, a glove that acts as a corsage; fabulous mules paved with Italian tile; a small field of daisies to bloom in an open neckline; great gilt swags and pearls worked like sumptuous fabric to glitter and gleam on bare, sun-browned arms and shoulders.

1. A bouquet at your wrist, blue fabric hyacinths stitched to the cuff of a short white lace kid glove. Designed by Balmain for Superb Gloves. $35.00. Carson Pirie Scott.

2. A summer essential, a bell-shaped petticoat in two layers of permanently starched white net bound with rayon taffeta. By Sydney A. Bush. $7.95. Lord and Taylor.

3. In the V of a black velvet cardigan, four chains of white fabric daisies with imitation topaz hearts. $10.00.* each for the fifteen-inch length (or any length to order). White bead rope, $10.00.* All, by Vogue. Bergdorf Goodman. The cardigan, one you'll wear over anything from organdie skirts to linen shorts, $25.00. By Idieh. Henri Bendel.

4. Enclosed ill a pearl rope, necklaces of imitation baroque and seed pearls, a flowered choker, $79.50*; a pendant necklace, $89.50*; a flowered necklace, $79.50.* All, by Miriam Haskell. Saks Fifth Avenue.

5. Forming a gorget, an imitation pearl alloc ($7.50* Best) ; and a wider one lIhtdwi elessata-lrlaep ties ($65.00.* Bergdorf Goodman). By La Tausca

6. Black shantung encrusted with gilt embroider), and hung with tassels, the collar, $I8.50; the belt, $35.00. By Midtown. Henri Bendel. Monet's chains.

7. A museum piece, the Venetian mule that you'll wear a lifetime, made by hand in the medieval tradition with a gorgeously colored mosaic heel and sole, a gold kid front. By Joga. $60.00. Henri Bendel.
*PLUS FEDERAL TAX 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 134/135

Summer Stock
Photos by KAREN RADKAI
· A supply of good-looking, hard-working dresses to draw on endlessly when the hot weather hits the city.
1. A coat dress in black Irish linen with pearl buttons and a skirt fuller in back than in front. By Varden Petite. About $60. Lord and Taylor; Best's Apparel, Seattle. Hat in golden straw, by Emme.
2. A cape-sleeved dress in dark gray shantung with a pleated front panel and crystal buttons closing it all the way down the front. By Doctor Dress. About $70.00. Hudson's. Belted hat, by Braagaard. The scarf of imitation pearls, by Richelieu.
3. A cool-necked dress in black matelasse pique, with two white lace hip pockets studded with rhinestones. By Aywon. About $35.00. Russeks; Joske's, San Antonio. The earrings, by Coro. 

Anita Colby, her own best advertisement for her forthcoming opus, Anita Colby's Beauty Book, poses, opposite, in a sheath dress and a straight, hip-length jacket of black silk shantung. By Larry Aldrich. About $95.00.
Bonwit Teller; Julius Garfinckel; Hudson's. Miss Colby's accessories, a white velvet hat by Emme, and a multitude of La Tausca’s simulated pearls. All gloves, by Wear-Right. All the photographs were taken at Flower Distributors, in New York's wholesale flower market. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 136/137

On Deck for Summer

Photos by GENEVIEVE NAYLOR

· A collection of cool, easy dresses photographed aboard the S. S. Independence, American Export's fast new transatlantic cruise ship that's really a seagoing spa. 

Returned voyagers tell of the marvelous food, of their gay, pretty quarters (the interiors, no two alike, were designed by Henry Dreyfuss), of dancing by evening and swimming all day under the big bronze frog in the mosaic pool.

Aquamarine Spring Mills cotton broadcloth with a neat bolero. By Sacson. About $9.00. Franklin Simon; Famous-Barr. Sally Greene's belt.

2. Pink spun rayon-also with a jacket (not shown),  edged in matching lace fringe.. By Peg Palmer, in half sizes. About $16.00. Lansburgh, Washington; Loveman, Joseph and Loeb, Birmingham. Criterion belt.

Silky purple Egyptian lawn, with a wide set collar. By Nelly Don. About $18.00. Bonwit Teller, Philadelphia; Dayton's, Minneapolis. Belt, by Vogue. 

· Opposite: A two-piece dress in red and white checked Tebilized Swiss voile, the bodice with a tucked bosom, the skirt softly pleated. By L'Aiglon. About $18.00.

Lord and Taylor; Woodward and Lothrop. Bryan sandalfoot stockings. Kid sandals, by Evilns. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 138/139

A Place by the Sea

· Left, a strapless maillot in crushed black velvet, with a sinuous shape, all the seams hemstitched. By Rose Marie Reid (the fabric is Celanese acetate rayon). $29.95.

· Right, the latest way to wrap up on the beach, in a great, big beautiful housecoat of rusty red and gold tie silk. By Clare Potter. $59.95. 

Both the above, Saks Fifth A venue. Sandals, by Bernardo. 

· In a blue that's fifty fathoms deep, a shirred maillot of Crompton silk velvet, with cut velvet panels and straps. By Cole of California. $25.00. Bonwit Teller. 

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1951 Page 140

Fantasy for Sale by Sarah Tomerlin Lee
· All the sorcerers, wizards, stargazers, magicians and plain and fancy witches of old could not offer the enchantments that a maiden today can buy for herself ("at her favorite drug or department store"). For instance:
She can wear a coronet of hair for midsummer night balls by simply sending in one lock of hair to Joseph Fleischer, 724 Fifth Avenue, who can match every head in the world.
She can turn her lips rosy as a rose and have them taste like fresh mint with Harriet Hubbard Ayer's delicious Mint Rose lipstick. $1.25, * at Stern. Or she can have them the color and the flavor of a ripe red apple with Milkmaid's Candy Apple lipstick $1,* at Altman.
Her nails can twinkle with shimmering pink stars set in polish with a Chen Yu Jewel Manicure. $1.50, at the Hudnut Salon (or she can buy the ingredients from Chen Yu).
She can confound her public with two luminous veils-one, Charles of the Ritz' "Liquid Veil," $3 *; the other, an airy mask of tulle which matches the complexion exactly, $1.95, at Lord and Taylor. On her travels she can wash her face with a large pink fragrant cloth, which before she put it in the basin was no bigger than a marshmallow. Schiaparelli's Bath Sponge, 10 for $1.75. Saks Fifth Avenue.
She can turn her skin to velvet with Marie Earle's magical Petalinn, a lotion with a very secret ingredient. 2 ounces, $1.75,* at Bloomingdale.
She can have a lovely flowered flowerpot, a May queen's proper accessory, filled to its leafy top with delights. . . cologne-liquid and solid (twentieth-century magic), talc, dusting powder and sachet, all in Lucien Lelong's halcyon "Spring and Summer" fragrance. All for $7.50, * at Altman.
She can wear the spirit of fresh English violets (long after violets have had their day) and eat them as well. Shelley Marks's true and touching Violet Flower Water. $3.75, * and Candied Violets, $1.50, at Lord and Taylor.
DRAWINGS BY MARGARET GRAHAM 
*PLUS FEDERAL TAX 

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Harper’s Junior Bazaar May 1951 Page 141/142/143

KODACHROME BY KAREN RADKAI

Harper’s JUNIOR BAZAAR May 1951

Photos by PAUL RADKAI

Junior Bazaar's Summer Separates

May is the month when summer plans get under way, travel folders are opened up, and country places; convertible tops come down, and seaside towns come to life; and the stores are full of clothes for the gay, lazy season ahead. The clothes shown on these and the following six pages were photographed on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands which with its new Virgin Isle Hotel is a divine spot to put down on your vacation itinerary.
All Junior Bazaar fashions, in junior sizes unless otherwise stated. . Kodachrome, by Paul Radkai.

Junior Bazaar in Nassau, 
above: Our model wears sheer cotton in a melon-colored plaid, a coat that can be belted and worn as a dress, about $23.00; a sleeveless bodice, about $8.00; a skirt, about $13.00. By Sportwhirl, in Tebilized Hope Skillman fabric. B. Altman; Hudson's, Joseph Magnin; Marshall Field's. Calderon belt. Coro bracelet. 

KODACHROME BY KAREN RADKAI

·Opposite: In a cool shadowy silk organ die print, a decollete dress and the airiest of jackets. By Anne Fogarty, in Jacob Rohner fabric. About $70.00. 

Lord and Taylor; Frost Brothers, San Antonio; Halle Brothers. Eisenberg earrings. Wear-Right gloves.  

Next

 Away for the Summer

· On this page: Two graceful young dresses by the French designer, Alwynn, adapted by Craig Casuals, in Galey and Lord cottons. Above, right: white pique cuffed with red and white corded cotton, with a corded cotton panel falling among the folds of the skirt. Right: a bodice and a triangular stole of red and black striped cotton and a full black skirt. Midtown belt. Each dress, about $25.00. 

Lord and Taylor; Julius Garfinckel; Kaufmann's. 

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