If it happened, Women’s Wear Daily was there. But the paper covered more than just the big-picture stuff.
Here, some of its more unusual and amusing headlines over the years.
January 3, 1918: “Why Not Camouflage the ‘Stouts’”
October 10, 1923: “Vogue for ‘Mah Jongg’ Stimulates Demand for Smoking Suits of Oriental Nature”
June 2, 1922: “‘Blue Laws’ for Flappers”
November 18, 1922: “The ‘Mite’ Before Christmas”
June 3, 1926: “As Furs Go, So Goes the Nation”
November 29, 1926: “Sports Clothes Held Clothes of Laziness”
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August 4, 1927: “Buyers Quick to Recognize ‘Bootlegger’ Model at Worth’s”
August 26, 1930: “Continuance of Sunburn Vogue on Riviera Brings Deeper Dècolletage Into
Continental Flavor”
May 19, 1931: “If Women Want to Swoon, Style Won’t Sway ’Em”
February 9, 1933: “Mannish, Indeed, Is the Last Word, If You’re a Feminine Type”
January 4, 1935: “Cupid Hard at Work at Hat Plant”
February 12, 1935: “Garment Men Turn Connoisseurs of Horse Flesh With Varying Success”
June 7, 1940: “Anklets Give Index to Scholastic Ability”
October 9, 1940: “Where There’s Smoke, There’s the Fire of Schiaparelli Ire”
January 1, 1941: “She Pelted the Matador With Colorful Panties”
October 4, 1941: “Knitted Underwear: Clever Christmas Gifts for Convalescents”
December 18, 1941: “What Will She Wear at Her Air-Raid Debut?”
April 11, 1947: “Hollywood Experts Cry Out for More Sparing Use of Makeup”
May 10, 1950: “Cushioned Seats in TV Pantie”
December 26, 1950: “You Can Survive an Atomic Attack!…”
March 15, 1951: “Corset Fitters Go to College”
February 10, 1953: “Fat Ladies? No, Say Not Slender”
December 4, 1953: “Fanfare for Lip Fashion”
March 2, 1954: “South Pacific Bomb Tests Due to Include 360 Fabrics”
November 21, 1957: “100 Shoplifters Bagged by a Two-Way Mirror”
February 4, 1964: “Paris: Yves of the Revolution”
September 10, 1965: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Edit a Magazine”
September 12, 1969: “Magna Cum Lauder”
March 11, 1970: “Longuette…It’s an Attitude”
September 24, 1970: “Bra Doffing: The Reasons”
November 20, 1970: “Are Wigs a Sexual Threat?”
October 2, 1970: “SA Goes to Pot”
February 13, 1978: “Halston Sees Flying Saucers”
May 26, 1978: “Why All the Bali-Hoo?”
March 28, 1980: “The Agony and the Ecstasy”
June 20, 1980: “Going for Brooke”
March 5, 1981: “Sommeliers Aren’t Dying on Vine”
July 2, 1981: “The Nylon Filament Search: Thin Is In”
June 21, 1983: “Love-’em and Leaf-’em…”
September 8, 1987: “How Short Is Short Is the Clue Execs Will Try to Unearth”
July 22, 1988: “Calvin’s Image Evolves From Leer to Eternity”
March 13, 1992: “La Dolce Vita and the Top Gabbana”
May 5, 1992: “Parka Avenue”
December 16, 1993: “The Night They Prevented Champagne”
March 8, 1996: “Eggplant Milanese”
January 9, 1997: “Night of the Living Deb”
November 7, 1997: “Smock It to Me”
March 16, 1998: “Gamming It Up With William Ivey Long”
February 10, 2003: “Attack of the Killer Bs”
March 31, 2003: “Sheer Makers Fight the Snags”
November 7, 2006: “Gauls Gone Wild”
December 16, 2004: “Seam Stress”
December 21, 2005: “The Strike That Could Kill Christmas”
October 22, 2007: “Genghis Karl”
April 16, 2008: “Vest in Show”
September 18, 2008: “Of Human Bandage”
March 13, 2009: “Yes, We Can-Can”
September 18, 2009: “The Grapes of Ralph”
April 19, 2010: “A Pall Over the Malls”
September 30, 2010: “Put a Shirt On”