With school days looming through the haze of the August sun and with mothers everywhere scurrying to reoutfit their young, the most spectacular back-to-schoo…

The great uranium hunt has brought a suddenly burgeoning uranium equipment business. Many of the companies which now outfit prospectors did not exist 10 year…

The abbreviated nightgown has been a widespread fashion for only a year but already designers are improvising it and have made their new styles look like dre…

For the winter of 1954 wool knit  became stylish enough to go dancing, so cotton knit has been hopefully primping for the summer trade. This simple fabric fl…

Twinned models are Tucker (far left) and dummy in print dresses and drummy matching Carol (right) in smaller size. Two of the figures in the spring fantasy a…

Easter is always the heyday of the hat and here, in time for Easter shopping, are some new designs from New York's top milliners shown as they may be wor…

After a fashionably muted winter the 1955 spring cocktail dresses come in keyed-up colors that disregard the traditional partygoing black and make newly arri…

With its fashion industry growing 10 times in size since 1945, the Miami of 1955 has 125 firms manufacturing women's apparel, in 1954 sold $55 million wo…

After the death of the fashion legend Jacque Fath in November 1954, there was the big risc of the company to colapse, yet in an emotional loyalty gesture, al…

For the summer of 1955, the fashion designers took their inspiration to and from the gorgeous fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera. Their work w…

This line male seated tailor-fashion in a crowd of live models and was dummies has found sudden success on the frontiers of fashion. After three short years …

Worrisome rumors about what Dior was up  to had been coming out of Paris ever since late July 1954, when top buyers and members of the fashion press from all…