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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a balcony of the Duke of York's home in Piccadilly little Princess Elizabeth climbed the railing excitedly waiting for the parade. Unfeeling grown-ups pulled her down, made her change her dress. In a clean pink frock and uncomfortable gloves she reappeared on the balcony, just in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Having just administered a mild rebuke to the Germanic cult of Nudism (TIME, July 1), long-faced William Ralph Inge, Very Reverend "Gloomy" Dean of St. Paul's, appeared last week as leader of a men's dress reform movement-a group of churchmen, actors and professional men militating for less and more beautiful clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Dress 8 oz. Suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Jencic, gigantic, untidy prototype of all Slav immigrants in the U. S., lives in fat little Mrs. Posilipo's lodging house and works in a bakery. So does handsome Teena, representing the Latins. Her lips and dress are red. Her eyes and teeth flash against the swarthy background of her skin. Jencic, in a big, slow, dumb, serf-like way, wants her. Because the girls at the bakery dared her to, she took Jencic's hand one day and told him she liked him. When he humbly tries to follow this up, she turns on him angrily with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Insignia of Aviation Country Clubs is a purple plane surrounded by purple initials ACC, superposed on a pair of gold wings. The pin worn on lapel or dress will indicate membership in what present members intend to be the most exclusive social club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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