Venice Festival Fashions 1950

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Northolt, London.

Top British mannequins leave from Northolt to show British Haute Couture fashions at the second International Festival of Fashion in Venice. They are met at the aircraft by the grand doyen of fashion mannequins. Sixty year old Dorothy Walker who checks that these girls who...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44444
Sort Number:
NP 319
Time in/Out:
01:41:42:00 / 01:43:10:00
Canister:
NP 319
Film ID:
1347.22
Issue Date:
23/10/1950

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