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The accessories and beauty ideas nobody saw coming.
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The five historical items from this edition, with their newspaper proof. Play first if you want to guess.
A photograph showed Denver’s Fay Rowe wearing dog collars around her legs as engagement tokens. The accompanying caption presented them as a departure from conventional finger rings: a proposal with an unusually practical accessory.
San Francisco Examiner · 1927-06-19 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗Chicago revived a curfew for children aged sixteen and under, but the latest fashions confused the officers enforcing it. The report said short skirts, rolled stockings and bobbed hair led police to take several married women over twenty into custody as children.
La Grande Evening Observer · 1926-09-01 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗The newspaper pictured Norma Smallwood, Miss America of 1926, attached to the elaborate equipment used for a permanent wave. It was a beauty treatment with a remarkably industrial appearance.
Minneapolis Journal · 1926-10-03 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗A 1923 fashion photograph described waterproof jumpers covering bathing suits on the walk to and from the beach. The caption made the combination of modesty and beachwear sound perfectly ordinary.
Detroit Free Press · 1923-04-29 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗Springfield’s supposed new beauty vogue was fly-swatting. The report claimed the exercise improved circulation and reduced fat. That is the newspaper’s historical pitch; the clipping is evidence of the fad, not evidence the beauty claims worked.
Boston Globe · 1927-03-24 · printed page not established
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