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This photograph is titled “Elks Fashion Show, 1956” but it’s odd to me that all the women are in bathing suits. I haven’t seen too many fashion shows in which bathing suits are the primary or exclusive garment featured. My guess is that this was really a local beauty pageant.
Source: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College archive in Alabama.
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Naomi Sims
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1950′s
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Well-dressed women going places - this is precisely the kind of image that adds to the romance of old New York and, more specifically, Penn Station (ca. 1942). I love it.
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1969
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Hazel Scott
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1960
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Harlem Fashion Show, 1963
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Ruby Dee
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Naomi Sims, 1969, New York
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Claudinette Fouchard, 1950′s
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Halle Berry
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