Try looking at the department store ads in the microfilm of your local
newspaper for '57. I'd start in April or May. If you're lucky, there
will have been a bridal shop advertising, as well. Or your library
might have hung on to Vogue, or Harper's Bazaar. I can't recall whether
Seventeen was pubbing in '57. I'm home sick, or I'd check. There were
lots of fashion ads in the New York Times, if your library has that.
It is a rare library that did this, but ask if they have a catalog
collection. No, not the library catalog, <grin> Sears, or Montgomery
Ward, etc.
<pause>
Ah, I found a source. Yes, Seventeen existed in 1957.
Mary Piero Carey
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