Buyers Corner Highlights 1955 Trends Across Industries
A monthly business bulletin previews 1955 shifts including fewer sixes and straight eights, rising V-8s with shorter hoods, growing costume jewelry sales, and strong pre Christmas volume. Railroads eye new low slung cars, radios lose ground to music and news, cigaret ads target tobacco concerns, door to door selling rises, housewives as primary travelers, and a NY Public Service Commission rate cut refunds four utilities to 2.5 million customers.
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A famed designer plans dramatic dress lines for women, swinging between full and form fitting and revisiting 1920s silhouettes that skirt knee level. Hats resemble storm wreckage while outfits reveal holes for ears and evoke odd, unsettling styles.
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