- The Truman era was truly a time apart.
- A time when first ladies appeared in public wearing novelty prints.
- Perle Mesta (seen here departing for Luxembourg) looks to have been almost as much fun as Ethel Merman.
- Margaret Truman looked an awful lot like her father. Her father in a black crêpe afternoon dress.
- Nostalgia for hats may be slightly overvalued.
- Even the firmest foundations could only do so much.
- Daytime corsages: when exactly did they leave the scene completely?
- I really, really wish we could see the shoes.
- Especially if we could do so without having to see the calves.
- Do public personages ever look this purely happy in photographs nowadays?
