Manhattan Fashion 1952 –

1950s-Fashion---Fifth-Avenue-Style-in-1952---Pat-Geoghegan2 — Model Pat Geoghegan glowing on Fifth Avenue

Look Magazine – August 12th 1952 showed the 5th Avenue folks don’t often see.
Hollywood actress Laraine Day along with local New York beauties, Mary Damon, Patricia Geoghegan and Brigida Dammes spent a sunny afternoon parading the latest trends in summer dresses and poodle haircuts . It’s not clear who the dresses are by but they are all in the New Look Dior style .

1950s-Fashion---Fifth-Avenue-Style-in-1952---Brigida-Dammes2 — Brigida Dammes

1950s-Fashion---Fifth-Avenue-Style-in-1952---Mary-Damon5 — Model Mary Damin walking by Bergdorf Goodman

1950s-Fashion---Fifth-Avenue-Style-in-1952---Laraine-Day2 — Actress Laraine day with her son strolling on Fifth Avenue

1950s-Fashion---Fifth-Avenue-Style-in-1952---Pat-Geoghegan — Look magazine model Pat Geoghegan

Photographer Arthur Rothstein
From the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York.