This vintage issue of Vogue Magazine, dated December 15, 1946, features Dorian Leigh and Ray Bolger in a festive postwar celebration of Christmas fashion, society, and glamour. With its blend of elegant photography, debutante culture, and imaginative storytelling, this issue captures the renewed spirit of sophistication and optimism that defined late 1940s Vogue.
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Table of Contents
CHRISTMAS... PARTIES, FASHIONS, PRESENTS
Débutante parties and party clothes 66–69
At the Tuxedo Ball 70
Miss Nancy Harris in her début dress 71
Clothes they choose for the South 72–75
Mrs. Bertrand Taylor 72
Mrs. André Embiricos 73
Mrs. Marshall Heminway; Mrs. Parsons Vanderbilt 74
Mrs. José Dorelis 75
Ladies in the sun—resort fashions 82–87
The long, long coat 88
Ballet ski pants from Paris 89
Pleats—again 90
Inch-high ring 91
Closed toe...evening 92
Girl with a curl 93
Fashions at the National Horse Show 96–97
Lucid lines in fluid lamé by Mainbocher 98–99
The fifty-fifty suit 100
Christmas lingerie, Christmas cosmetic presents 102–107
Sleep inducers—Christmas linens 108
PEOPLE AND IDEAS
Snow White, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood— 57–63
Fables retold by Geoffrey Hellman
The De Marcos 64
Dances and débutantes. By Frank Crowninshield 65
London to New York 76–77
Now in California 78–79
Norway. By Alice D. Kiaer 80
Christmas Eve in Louisburg Square 94–95
Pleasant Valley—no vacancies. By Mary Bromfield 101
A rare postwar holiday issue filled with seasonal fashion, social highlights, and literary features, this Vogue edition stands as a quintessential artifact of 1940s elegance—celebrating the return of glamour, artistry, and cultural refinement after wartime austerity.