75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: RED: It blazes in Fall accessories. http://bitly.com/1rA8ppf
75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: RED: It blazes in Fall accessories. http://bitly.com/1rA8ppf
"Red is the color of the season. On New York's Fifth Avenue and Chicago's Michigan Boulevard and all the streets where Fashion strikes first, the autumn crowds are sprinkled thick with red. Red bobs in and out of shops on women's heads, blazes from gloves and belts and bags. Red coats flare through the early dusk and red umbrellas flaunt defiance at the rain. Seldom has a color fad caught on like this one. Red, with a dozen new names - gunfire red, flag red, fireman's red, Robin Hood red, rowdy red, red flannel, bonfire red, roaring red and bullfight red - promises to blaze right through the winter."
#fashion #1930s #vintage
I like this. How dramatic and bold.
ReplyDeleteThey would have had to pay to use colour. That colour could then be used by the magazine on four other pages. I remember this from my days at the student newspaper. I'm probably one of the youngest people to remember such things, eh?
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