"Seventeen" (1953)

The fifties were said to have brought forth the "teenager"—but you wouldn't know it from these fashions appearing on the cover of Seventeen. 

July 1953

July 1953 features Pattern 4367 from Simplicity—a "red dress of wool, nylon and Dacron by Miliken.  Beret was a "John Frederics Charmer" and the bag a "Talon Boodle Bag".

October 1953

October's cover displayed a dress by Teena Paige—"sparkling fresh in a scoop-necked rayon bengaline... In beige or turquoise with black braid markings, a blag patent belt."  The hat was a "Par Avion helmet hat by Colby."