Women Share Christmas Sewing Gifts From the Heart
Mary Brooks Picken surveys a group of skilled women who sew Christmas gifts. They describe party dresses, robes, potholders, blouses, bed jackets, veiling caps, and scarves, highlighting practicality, personalized touches, and careful fabric choices.
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Mary Brooks Picken
New York
NEA
Que
Hildegarde
Lady Mendle
Leadership Lacking in Male Fashion Says Top NYC Tailor
Carroll R. Kristall, head of Crysteno Inc., laments a decline in occasion dressing among men in New York. He contrasts white-tie scarcity at Lincoln Center and the Met with a shift to tuxedos, suits, and nonuniform attire, blaming lack of trusted leadership and weak style role models. He praises British formal dressing and notes Madison Avenue casualness has spread.
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Walter Logan
New York
UPI
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
Carroll R. Kristall
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Chinchilla
Kristall
Custom Tailors and Designers Assn. of America
Manhattan Merchants Assn
Lucius Beebe
Adolph Menjou
Cary Grant
Jack Benny
Steve Lawrence
London
Madison Avenue
Crysteno, Inc
New McGraw-Hill Art Slides Bring Masterpieces Home
New Color Slide Books of the World’s Art Series let families view reproductions at home. The initial volumes include Impressionist Painting by Albert Chatelet and Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century by Emil R. Meijer, with more titles to follow.
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McGraw-Hill
Albert Chatelet
Lillemuseum
France
Emil R. Meijer
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
Holland
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