CHEERS! 1955

The Colombo Cocktail ... Light rum and pineapple

Junior Sophisticate shirtdress in matching hue

Everything Old Is New Again

The framed fur bag in coonskin by Roger Van S.

Photography: Ernst Beadle

The Coonskin Carryall by  Madame Thea

The New Ford "Thunderbird"

The Slim Line

Dovima 

Cotton jersey two-piece by Sportswhirl

Wizard's Hat by Bernard Workman

Sunny Harnett

Golden mesh sweater dress by Nelly de Grab

Bead ropes at the waist and wrist by Coro

  

Foxy Cashmere Cardigan

David Goodstein

                                            Lean Cardigan Suit

                  Spectator Limited

Fully Fashioned

There is really nothing more feminine than a woman in fashion that is nipped-in at the waist and full-skirted. Graceful, pretty, all female and surely due for a big comeback. This coat, in a blend of silk, wool and mohair, is by Lilli Ann.

Dovima wears a dotted shirtwaist by Jerry Gilden

Fontenella of Rome

Chantilly lace and silk organdie mosaic bands over pink silk organdie, fluted out in pleats from a silk tied waist. By Harvey Berin.

Black Chantilly lace over white silk organdie. A slightly lowered waistline and  organdie jacket, sleeved, just shoulder-deep. By Mary Black.

White frozen over ice pink

Dress for an early spring bride. Over the palest taffeta, white organdie, embroidered in snow flowers, trellised with scallops and lace ruching; surging out into panniered width below a little waist. By Priscilla of Boston.

Key West, Florida

Anna Magnani with Director daniel Mann on the set of The Rose Tatoo

Photograph: Sanford H. Roth

Fulton Street Markets

Joseph's - The Fulton Market, East River New York

Albert's - Washington Market

Photographs: Paul Radkai

The Well-Spent Dollar

Harper's Bazaar February 1955

Photography:

Richard Avedon

Ernst Beadle

Sanford H. Roth

Paul Radkai

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'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Mainbocher's Eyecatcher Hemline:

"The dress is pale pink tafffeta, scissored and tucked to fall against the lines of the body in one smooth and incredibly simple descent ... simple as a chess game, that is, this being Mainbocher. Then at the hem, massed arabesques of silver-gilt embroidery break loose, directing the eye to crescendos of terminal brilliance."

Diamond earrings by Harry Winston

Merry Christmas To All ... And To All A Good Night

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OH CHRISTMAS TREE!

Mainbocher's Subtracted Perfection

50'S super model Sunny Harnett in Mainbocher - heathered gray and white tweed. The jacket, a heathery cashmere sweater set in tweed and bound off short at the waist - an unmistakable Mainbocher mannerism. The dress that wears the jacket is a cashmere sweater and skirt fused into one piece, perfectly shaped to the figure moving out in a light flow at the hem.

Tweed the color of a pink rose. The Jacket mounted with a faceted black broadtail collar, a fold-in broadtail scarf, the line of the jacket arrested at the point where the waistline inches in.

The Mainbocher Hemline

The dress - in the crystal gray of wool mixed with silk, cut with the greatest appearance of ease, to identify itself beautifully with the lines of the body. Everywhere quiet circumspection, scissored to curve, cling and flow in movement - until the eye strikes a fine-scale massing of embroidered vines climbing upward from the hem. Harry Winston diamond earrings.

Mainbocher's Subtracted Perfection

The Mainbocher Hemline

Harper's Bazaar December 1953

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ROULETTE - LE TOUQUET

GRES

SUNNY HARNETT

RICHARD AVEDON

Harper's Bazaar

September 1954