Fall Fashion Issues

Covering the season

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." —Coco Chanel

Coming to America: The New Look

We can see the passage of time so clearly in our magazines. With fashion, the years announce themselves in elegance and in the every day. From the red carpet to the grocery store, what we wear marks the way we were.

What follows is not so much a history of fashion as it is a romp through a piles of years raked up with the autumn leaves.

The Twenties May be roaring, but the Fall colors are ruling.

The Great Depression is happening. Elsewhere.

"Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes." —Diana Vreeland

There’s a pattern here somewhere.

"When in doubt, wear red." —Bill Blass

The Ebony fall issue, 1950 and 1961. The world has changed, but the newsstand price has only gone up a nickel.

Spoiler alert. 60s culture shift on the fashion horizon.

"Trendy is the last stage before tacky." —Karl Lagerfeld

A top catalogue goes for the Mad Men look for Autumn ,1961.

DIY gone wild.

Canada’s classy Chatelaine.

Never too early to think about Christmas 1948.

“The past is a blast.”