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Clipping: "Bucolic Trend / Fashion Isn't Hay, But It Comes Close / By Gay Pauley / New York, March 7 / High fashion's gone hayseed. It used to be that the rural girl went to the big city for the latest styles. Now she has the makings for them right on the farm. For there's more wtraw being used in this year's warm weather fashions than you'll find at a livestock show.[...]" Clipping with a photograph of a model wearing a coat with text and 8 fabric swatches. Text reads: "new system in fabrics con't / Man-Made Fibres / System: Ask the impossible of a coat and you'll probably be shown on e made from a member of the test-tube group [of swatches] above. Maybe a nice untarnishable gold tweed (see left) to wear in the rain (treated with Unisec), and out to dinner, Cotton tweed, woven with gilt Lurex. By Bonnie Cashin, $60. Lord & Taylor." Clipping with an illustration of a woman and a girl wearing bed jackets with matching pillow cases, with text: "Bonnie Cashin turns her designer flair to boudoir ... designs quilted bedjackets with matching pillow shams, big and little for mother and daughter. Printed delicately in pink and blue[...] [handwritten:] The Fair, Ft. Worth, Texas" Clipping with a photograph of a model wearing a knit dress and matching dress with text: "Attached Please Find: Eight Notable Price Tags / $59.95 for the wonderful effect of stripes, knitted in wool chenille. A two-piece maillot top dress with its own "wrap" -- a little triangular wool shawl. By Bonnie Cashin. Lord & Taylor."
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