[Ads-l] Request help with Vogue 1916 cite for "Brevity is the soul of lingerie"

[Joel Berson]

I probably have access to The Vogue Archive, but only if I go to a Harvard Library.  My next visit will be in a week or two.  As described by Harvard, quoting the Web site:

"The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names."--Web site. 


Joel


      From: ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
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 Subject: [ADS-L] Request help with Vogue 1916 cite for "Brevity is the soul of lingerie"
   
Dorothy Parker once quipped "Brevity is the soul of lingerie".
Apparently, she wrote the phrase in a caption in the fashion magazine
"Vogue", and I am trying to verify the accuracy of a citation in
October 1916.

Do you have access to the ProQuest: The Vogue Archive? If you do I
hope you will be willing to perform a quick search for the phrase and
send to me a pertinent PDF. Alternatively, you may have access to
microfilm or bound copies of "Vogue" in 1916.

I have checked Google Books and HathiTrust, but the coverage of the
early years of "Vogue" is very poor. Issues in 1916 are in the public
domain, but, unhappily, I have not been able to find scans online.

Here are the details for the citation under investigation:

Date: October 1, 1916
Periodical: Vogue
Article: Pattern Service
Quote Page 101
Publisher: Conde Nast, New York

[Begin excerpt]
>From these foundations of the autumn wardrobe, one may learn that
brevity is the soul of lingerie.
[End excerpt]

It would be helpful to see the surrounding context for the quotation.

Background information on this topic is available here:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/02/25/brevity/

Please let me know if you can help,
Garson O'Toole
QuoteInvestigator.com

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