This vintage issue of Vogue Magazine, dated October 1, 1954, features a striking cover of model Jean Patchett photographed by Horst P. Horst, one of fashion’s most legendary photographers. This issue captures the refined glamour and postwar sophistication of mid-century fashion, with in-depth coverage of Paris collections, new silhouettes, beauty innovations, and notable cultural figures of the time.
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Table of Contents
FASHION
93 Vogue’s eye view: who’s beautiful now
94–101 The new beauty in her new five o’clock shirt—luxurious shirts; some of the places they’ll be worn this season
102–105 Paris—the new beauties there: Balenciaga’s dinner coifs; Dior’s beaver-brown and mink; jewels from the collections
106–107 By international agreement: long-jacket suits
120–121 Short evening coats: exciting new interest
122–123 Long evening coats: brilliant comeback
128–129 Bright satin slipper: new addition to the party
130–133 French and Italian copies from the new collections
134–145 The influential furs: the fur that makes a costume; the fur that has its own fur; fur envelopes; fur for tweed; fur touches for black
148–149 Discovery in slenderness: the new easier form of girdle
150–151 Discovery in fashion: two dresses on a new diet
152–153 Vogue Patterns: after-five plans for the shirt dress
156–159 Nine new pieces of fashion for the city-country circuit
160 Rose-printed tricot nightdress
MRS. EXETER’S FASHION
168 Mrs. Exeter’s list from this issue of Vogue
FEATURES • ARTICLES • PEOPLE
108–109 New stars: Grace Kelly, Marisa Pavan
110–111 “Is There a New Kind of Courage?” By Cecil Woodham-Smith
112–119 “Braque.” By Alexander Liberman — First article in a series on living masters in art
124 Julie Andrews, star of The Boy Friend
125 People Are Talking About . . .
126–127 “Two Letters.” Poems by Wallace Stevens
166 “Western Canada: Calgary, Banff, and Vancouver.” By Peggy Talbott Noyes
169 “No Pagan Hanky-Panky.” By Sir Arthur Grimble
ENTERTAINING • THE HOUSE
154–155 Sterling silver: how it grows—nine stages in the development of a silver spoon; flowery uses for small pieces of silver
160, 162 New flower bed: fluffy white blanket; flowered, fitted nylon sheets
BEAUTY
95 The new specifications for beauty
131 Lipstick with a built-in anti-chapping treatment
146–147 Underwater exercises at Arizona Maine Chance
150, 163 Announcing a new quiet diet
DEPARTMENTS
80 Vogue’s Travelog
84–89 Shop Hound
A timeless issue that blends mid-century elegance, artistic photography, and cultural commentary, this Vogue edition stands as a collectible artifact from one of the magazine’s most influential decades.