To Be Thrifty Is Clever, The Crime Is To Look It

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The fashion writer Lynn Yaeger wondered what kind of advice the high-end fashion magazines were giving their readers during the Great Depression. So she plowed through some old issues of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar for some style hints for the economically-challenged.

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