Window-Dressing

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

405

Date Released

1 Oct 1962

Date recorded

31 Aug 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

759

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Indian Air Hostesses
2. 2Wrac
3. 3Window-Dressing
4. 4Space-Age Hair Fashions

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - Shop-window models with moving eyes are made in a workshop in Molesey, Surrey.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: If a WRAC girl or Air India hostess wants a new dress, what does she do? Well, for a start, she plays that favourite woman’s game - window-shopping. But if she gets a funny feeling that someone is watching, then she should take a look at the display dummy. An expert has come across with the idea that a small device fitted to the eyes means that they constantly move right, left, right. They’re the envy of many a girl who would like to sit in a window, wearing model clothes, and watching the world go by to the left, right, left ...

Keywords

Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume

Locations

Molesey; England; Surrey

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Brian Cobby

Length of story (in feet)

178

Story extras:

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