Modess....because

[gotham-syren.livejournal.com]

Seeing VICTORY NUVO BELT prompted me to scan and upload this ad from the back cover of the September 1956 Ladies' Home Journal.

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[morienos.livejournal.com]

That's just gorgeous.

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

...and yet what it's advertising...!

[darksilver23.livejournal.com]

Either the dress or the fabric to make it from Neiman Marcus.

[llamamuffins.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

..and those lovely colors! <//3

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

There was a long series of these ads featuring different elegant dresses, and my mother had one copied by a dressmaker for her wedding.
True story.

[myvintagevogue.livejournal.com]

this is Suzy Parker