Vogue November 1, 1955. On the cover, Dior's ruby velvet with a stiff tracery of embroidery-a mink-collared coat, a sheath, a deep-set casque. The setting: Marie Antoinette's staircase a the palace of Versailles. Photo by Henry Clarke.
Fashion
-Vogue's eye view of the good new hood
-New dazzle in the hood
-Dazzle-do it yourself
-The Venetian hood; the red-and-white evening idea
-New dazzler: the brocade evening shoe
-Season's dazzlers": Party coats, dresses
-Brilliant new season for black
-Discovery in Paris: the covered bare dress
-Faille with a velvet frieze
-Satin with a rush of roses
-The pale dancing dress: satin, or somewhat
-The slender furs: new by but, by wrap
-Day looks-first day out
-In Paris-wedding tradition in four new forms
-Luggage-with a space for everything
-Vogue Patterns from the new Paris collections
-Miss Peggy Wood, posing as Mrs. Exeter
In Vogue for Men
-The men's pages: convertible news
Features-Articles-People
-Season's dazzlers: Marcel Marceau; Diane Cilento; "Crazy Otto"; Abe Burrows; Maria Callas; Siobhan McKenna; Inge Borkh; Emil Gilets and David Oistrakh
-Mrs.Walter D. Sohier; Mrs. Stanley Rumbough, junior
-"Kandinsky." by Alexander Liberman
-"The Cook's Story." by Elisabeth Ayrton
-People Are Talking About...
-Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Rogers Reid
-Wedding festivals: in the Azores; on the Cote Basque
-"Some Marginal Notes." by Robert Hillyer
-Gossipy Memo on Travel
-"Freighters for Fun." by Frank Oliver
Entertaining-The House
-Cole Porter's apartment: country house on the 33rd floor
-The desk set: Jocelyn Brando and Robert Whitehead; Mr. and Mrs. Spelman Prentice
-Boswellian hostess: Mrs. William K. Dick
-'The Case for Chicken Saute." by Jon Stroup
Photographers: Henry Clarke, Virginia Thoren, Richard Avedon, Mark Shaw
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