The Archive · 1938

Being Beautiful—Despite a Cold

The turn of the year is the time for colds, and girl who has a cold and still wishes to be beautiful does not always find it an easy task.

But, just as in everything else, there is a special technique of achieving beauty despite a cold.

4 stylized Louis XIV silhouette by Mainbocher. The skirt is panniered while the pointed bodice and decolletage are out ined on black taffeta by erotic embroidery of gold and silver threads encrusted with diamonds, pearls and rubies.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account