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Cover: Furs, Fabrics, Fashions for College

Toni Frissell1937-08-15/1937-08-15

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Swelling the feminine majority of this year’s college million is the girl whom Toni Frissell photographed for the cover. The dress she wears is reminiscent in style of the Grossman jersey dress, adopted by the emancipated women of 1918. But she chooses it here, for campus or out-of-town week-ends, in a green and red plaid of Fieldcrest wool. It has the casual chic youth in its pleated skirt and white pique collar, the sharp aliveness of autumn in its colour. On the green Dunlap felt an impudent Scotch burst stands stark upright. Best

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  • Title: Cover: Furs, Fabrics, Fashions for College
  • Creator: Toni Frissell
  • Date Created: 1937-08-15/1937-08-15
  • Location Created: United States
  • Provenance: Vogue, August 15, 1937
  • Photographer: Toni Frissell
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