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Fashion Parade.

Fashion Parade.
Clip: 354740_1_1
Year Shot: 1957 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1630
Original Film: 030-029-06
HD: N/A
Location: New York
Timecode: 00:17:59 - 00:18:59

Same as Catalog # 513728. Fashion Parade. "Spring fashion by leading British designers are shown in New York, keynoting 'London Week' in the U.S. The emphasis is on eye-appeal, light and cheerful styles for spring." Female models pose for the camera in new spring fashions from Britain. Lots of coats are shown. Actress Margaret Leighton, outdoors, chats with someone; she wears a patterned coat, a hat and penciled eyebrows. More indoor shots; an airline hostess (stewardess/flight attendant) with two other women; one woman wears a hat with a floppy, irregular brim; the other wears a tweed striped coat. Women model evening gowns, one wearing a fur stole, pearl necklace and white gloves (very 1950s). Woman opens her "choirboy" coat to show off a striped bathing suit with skirt.