Name/TitleVogue Christmas Number
About this objectVogue Christmas Number, dated December 1956, priced 3/6. The main contents headings are:
Christmas:
- Vogue's eye view of Christmas
- The qualities of Christmas: described by R.S. Thomas
- Christmas in the country
- The thirty-one days of a child's Christmas
- Scent and Stockings: most-wanted presents this and every Christmas
- 1916-18 or 1956?
- Presents - great and small
- Food at its best in December, by Elizabeth David
- Records for Christmas, by Simon Harcourt
- Books for Christmas, by Penelope Gilliatt
- Lingerie for Christmas
- Beauty Bulletin: an ABC of Christmas giving
- The art of entertaining: 8 Drinks for Christmas and New Year parties
- Shop Hound combs the London stores...
- Shop Hound's best wishes...
- Beauty baubles
Fashion:
- Mothers and children
- Evening looks: Paris and London
- Party dresses
- The veiled face
- Shopping new style: classic suit
- Choice of the month: velvet cape
- Gay evenings - the dresses, the settings
- Young ideas for a happy Christmas
- Warmth at home
- Patterns for a look; dress news in Vogue Patterns
- Where to buy the clothes in this issue
People and Ideas:
- The Crazy Gang
- Robert Morley
- Shopping new style: stores outside the city
- Christmas dinner with a bandit, by Dorothy Carrington
- Holland, by F.H. Partington
Fully digitised (158 pages; back page(s) missing; in very poor condition).
MakerCondé Nast Publications Ltd
Maker RoleProprietor and Publisher
Date MadeDec 1956
Period1950s
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesThe Condé Nast Publications Ltd, 37 Golden Square, London, W.1
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 290 x W: 220 x D: 10 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsKnitting - women's clothing
Subject and Association KeywordsKnitting - family clothing
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePattern
Object numberGWL-2022-128-24
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved