Spring Is In The Air - Hats and Accessories from 1956

Ruth Mary Packard writing in the Ladies Home Journal in March, 1956 gives important advice for spring hats, purses, shoes, jewelry and glove...

Spring Is Still In The Air in 1956

The Fashion Editor, Wilhela Cushman, of The Ladies Home Journal offers these suggestions for spring, 1956.   "There's an abundance ...

The Costume Look for Spring - 1956

From the March, 1956 Ladies Home Journal, some hope for spring! "It will be a gay colorful spring - fabric tones are the loveliest ever...

Make The Clothes That Make The Woman - McCall's 1956 Part 2

Let's look at more of this McCall's catalog from April 1956. This has some Fashion Excitement for the young, patterns featured in Ma...

Make The Clothes That Make The Woman - McCall's 1956

Make the clothes that make the woman. That is the refrain from this McCall's catalog dated April, 1956. It came to us from Capwell's...

How To Choose The Right Foundation For You - More 1956 Underwear!

"Build Your Own Best Silhouette" "Today foundation garments are designed for individual figure types and fitted as never befo...

Build Your Own Best Silhouette 1956 Underwear!

"The way your dress fits depends on the foundation you wear and different types of clothes require different styles of underpinning. Th...

The richness and splendor of the East - 1956 Fashions

This 1956 article from Woman's Home Companion is titled "A New Simplicity touches our lives today". They show the new influenc...

Jewels of the Sea - McCall's Magazine - 1956

Rose Marie Reid from the Hourglass Collection with "Helmets by Rex"!

Realities Magazine -1956 - Chanel Fashion

Dancing Numbers - Four summer evening dresses from the Chanel Collection Chanel No. 1 A stream of silver paillettes circles the long torsoed...

Woman's Home Companion -1956 -Advance Patterns to Make Your Sewing Easier

Each of these stunners takes less than four main pattern pieces (some may have interfacings, ect.) No reason to delay...get sewing!