The Barbizon – the first women-only residential hotel – was built in 1927 on the Upper East side in Manhattan. There was even a detachable white collar.įrom The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren (Simon & Schuster). Magnin with a navy two-piece dress in summer wool – a long tunic top that buttoned up the front and a pleated skirt underneath. She would need to appear sophisticated while she mingled with editors, advertisers, and the New York literati. She was going to New York, she explained, for the month of June, staying at the Barbizon and working with Mademoiselle magazine offices on Madison Avenue. The moderate floor came with a clothing advisor, who greeted Peggy’s mother by name, led them over to a damask-covered love-seat and asked Peggy to describe the purpose of her outfit. It wasn’t ‘couture,’ one floor up, where they seldom ventured, but nor did it mean thumbing through the racks. Upon entering, they made a beeline for the ‘moderate’ floor. Peggy’s mother had insisted that she go to San Francisco’s best store, I.
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