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KODACHROME BY KAREN RADKAI

Harper’s JUNIOR BAZAAR May 1951

Photos by PAUL RADKAI

Junior Bazaar's Summer Separates

May is the month when summer plans get under way, travel folders are opened up, and country places; convertible tops come down, and seaside towns come to life; and the stores are full of clothes for the gay, lazy season ahead. The clothes shown on these and the following six pages were photographed on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands which with its new Virgin Isle Hotel is a divine spot to put down on your vacation itinerary.
All Junior Bazaar fashions, in junior sizes unless otherwise stated. . Kodachrome, by Paul Radkai.

Junior Bazaar in Nassau, 
above: Our model wears sheer cotton in a melon-colored plaid, a coat that can be belted and worn as a dress, about $23.00; a sleeveless bodice, about $8.00; a skirt, about $13.00. By Sportwhirl, in Tebilized Hope Skillman fabric. B. Altman; Hudson's, Joseph Magnin; Marshall Field's. Calderon belt. Coro bracelet. 

KODACHROME BY KAREN RADKAI

·Opposite: In a cool shadowy silk organ die print, a decollete dress and the airiest of jackets. By Anne Fogarty, in Jacob Rohner fabric. About $70.00. 

Lord and Taylor; Frost Brothers, San Antonio; Halle Brothers. Eisenberg earrings. Wear-Right gloves.  

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 Away for the Summer

· On this page: Two graceful young dresses by the French designer, Alwynn, adapted by Craig Casuals, in Galey and Lord cottons. Above, right: white pique cuffed with red and white corded cotton, with a corded cotton panel falling among the folds of the skirt. Right: a bodice and a triangular stole of red and black striped cotton and a full black skirt. Midtown belt. Each dress, about $25.00. 

Lord and Taylor; Julius Garfinckel; Kaufmann's. 

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The average price of a new home then was $9000 about 2.56 times the yearly average wage of $3510.  Which was about 2.34 times the price of a new car $1500.  Today?