Pat Baron’s One-Size Wrap Skirt Tops New York Fashion
Scarsdale matron Pat Baron promotes a one size fits all wrap skirt and a loose smock dress with big sleeves. She markets through her Vuitton bag samples, selling to major stores at about 40 and 48 dollars respectively. The designs target sizes 6 to 14 and need no alterations. Baron works from home to keep overhead low and sometimes handles deliveries herself.
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Vuitton
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Women Overlooked in New York Film Roles
A critique notes a contradiction in feminism with scarce strong female parts in American cinema. It observes that when women appear on screen they are typically cast as prostitutes, sex kittens, neurotic housewives, or blank blonde stereotypes, highlighting limited, typecast opportunities.
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Oracle of Fashion World Looks Ahead in New Year
Former editor Oracle, a legendary New York fashion figure, reflects after a tough year. The East Side residence glows with red as she contemplates past influence, current trends, and the uncertain path of fashion.
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New York Times
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Sybil
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Delphic Oracle of fashion Diana Vreeland quoted
Diana Vreeland, former Vogue editor and Harper's Bazaar editor, now Metropolitan Museum of Art consultant, discusses fashion as a product of social times, the bikini as a bold symbol, and the tension between price, pleasure, and propriety. She argues fashion is for the young, critiques aging trends, and urges spending in line with income while saving for charity.
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Diana Vreeland
Vogue
Harper's Bazaar
Costume Institute
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ten Commandments for raising children, Bramcote vicar says
The Rev James Hamilton Brown of Bramcote parish in Nottingham outlines ten commandments for raising children the wrong way. They warn against imposing no standards failing to teach faith avoiding hypocrisy assuming innocence shielding from reality and ignoring parental involvement and inquiry.
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Nottingham
England
Bramcote
Here
James Hamilton-Brown
God
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Marlo Thomas joins McCall Pattern as director of Women's Interests
Motion picture and stage star Marlo Thomas becomes director of Women's Interests at The McCall Pattern Co. President Earle Angstadt hails her as a modern adventurer who will bridge McCall's with today's women. Thomas will select designs for upcoming catalogs and lead a new "Marlo's Corner" feature.
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McCall Pattern Co
McCall's
Earle K. Angstadt
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Bishop O Leary visitor at Old Orchard Beach cake
His Excel lency the Most Rev Edward C O Leary bishop of the Portland Diocese pauses at a reception at Old Orchard Beach High School. Parishioners of St Margaret Church admire a cake baked by Leatrice Morin reproducing the bishop coat of arms and motto One Who Serves on the top layer. The detail shows elapsed hands and crucifix at the bottom and the inscription Congratulations from St Margaret s. Bishop O Leary once served as pastor of the Beach church.
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Portland
Old Orchard Beach High School
St. Margaret Church
Arnold (Leatrice) Morin
Old Orchard Beach
Morin
St. Margaret's
Bishop O'Leary
the Beach Church
Richard Danforth
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