Beauty and fur fashion show at Four Seasons Restaurant highlights
Coopchik-Forrest presents a fur fashion show by Donald Brooks at the Four Seasons Restaurant. Highlights include rabbit to Russian broadtail coats, wide belts, and dramatic black French seal and white Indian lamb coats. Jewelry notes: bracelets rise in popularity with woven crystal pieces and white jewelry favored for summer. A Max Factor spray, Foot Light, promises cooling comfort for walking crowds and teens in sneakers.
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Coopchik-Forrest
Four Seasons
Donald Brooks
Jewelry Industry Council
New York
Max Factor
Inside View Counts: Choosing Durable Upholstered Furniture
A guide emphasizes checking a sofa’s internal construction. Look at the frame wood such as oak or maple, double doweled joints, and reinforced corn blocks. Inspect the base, spring tightness, padding materials, fabric treatment, and overall comfort before buying.
Sunglass Boom Fuels Fashion Eyewear Trend
New York reports a booming sunglass market as status symbols. Designers cite mass production and rapid style turnover with 63 basic shapes and bold colors driving demand. Experts note consumers use shades to project mystique and perhaps shield from problems while preserving eye comfort with polished lenses.
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Foster Grant
Bean Blossom
Ind
Rome
Paris
New York
Dinnerware Care Hints Suggested
Chicago reports melamine dinnerware is in 15 million homes. The Melamine Council urges care tips: skip harsh scrubs and chlorine bleaches, you can wash in a dishwasher, rinse promptly to prevent stains, coffee or tea stains respond to baking soda on a damp cloth, and stubborn marks may need special cleansers.
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Chicago
UPS
Melamine Council
Safe High Intensity Lighting Gains Consumer Attention
A 1960s marketing expert discusses safe high intensity lamps, noting portable compact units benefit from miniaturization and consumer focus on brand reliability. Tips include magnetic bases for auto use, compact folding designs, avoiding pinched wires, and buying auto lamp bulbs without transformers to cut costs.
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Martin Schwarz
Schwartz
Pette
Ours
Lampette
Sometimes It Pays To Think Like A Child
New York UPI report notes toy inventor Ned Strongin argues successful toys arise from thinking as a child. He says evaluating child wants leads to market hits and royalties that boost earnings.
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New York
UPI
Ned Strongin
Shoe Buckle Jingle Bucks Up Footwear Fashion
Herbert and Beth Levine, makers of shoes, favor the jingle of metal buckles and jewel flashes on fashion footwear. Levine says the plain pump has suddenly become demode and buckled accents are in vogue.
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Herbert and
Beth Levine
Levine
Designer uses yellow rabbit skins in fur coat
Anne Fogarty dyed rabbit skins yellow and styled them into a fur coat for her fall and winter collection. A yellow cashmere dress accompanied the design, highlighting bold color work in this season's lineup.
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Anne Fogarty
Dress Ad Highlighting Patt-O-Rama No 8243
An advertisement promotes a women’s dress in Patt-O-Rama line named No 8243. It emphasizes good grooming appeal, an attractive slenderizing silhouette, and a crisp contrasting collar for women’s sizes.
Family Scraps Teaching Kids to Feel Safe Around Adults
A nephew’s timidity around a booming voice prompts a mother and child study group to advise adults to slow down and approach youngsters gently. A friend’s pattern ad ends the column, recalling requests to send 50 cents for a fall and winter pattern booklet.
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Bill Byrnes
Sis
Jimmy
Mrs. O'Bryan
Bill
Rhinestone jewelry cleaned with detergent and cloth
Dulled rhinestone jewelry will shine if soaked in detergent for about 15 minutes and then rubbed with a flannel cloth. The narrator describes quiet observations as a man approaches to investigate, noting the method as seemingly sure-fire.
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