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- not comparableWearing a shirtdress.
Wonderful go-together jewelry for your shirtdressed summer.
1960 June 28, “Woolf Brothers”, in The Kansas City Times, volume 123, number 154, Kansas City, Mo., page 32 more examples
The slim shirtdressed silhouette—an important, flattering shape!
1955 December 21, “Franklin Simon”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 253, number 174, Triangle Publications Inc., page 8MORE often than not, a man would not even remove his suit and tie for dinner with his family at home — check out episodes of “Leave It to Beaver,” the quintessential ’50s sit-com, and you’ll find good old Ward Cleaver buttoned up, while shirtdressed June Cleaver serves dinner to the boys in chinos.
1987 January 18, John Mariani, “The Not-So-Fabulous ’50s”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 26
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