1957 Fashion Ad
Fashion

1957 Red Brick and Gray Stone

A fun fashion ad showing a woman in a striped knit dress and cool red hat.

From the pages of the September 1957 edition of Mademoiselle magazine,this is a dual ad for both fashion and fiber. The model is wearing a vibrant dress in colors described as red brick and gray stone from the labs of Colorray (solution-dyed rayon fiber with captive color). This type of ad was not uncommon in mid-century fashion magazines as man-made fiber technology was booming in the fashion world. The dress is by Pat Hartly who offered the dress for $23.00.

1957 Striped Dress and Red Hat
1975 Fashion ad for Colorray and Pat Hartly.

 

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I'm an American baby boomer with a strange hobby. I collect mid-century women's magazines. My blog, MidCenturyPage.com is a result of a 20 year passion to scan the pages of these magazines and share them with anyone who wants to understand what mid-century women thought about, cared about, and worried about while living in the 1950's and 1960's