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Guess the Year this `Vogue’ Cover Hit Newsstands

by Sally Andersen

Can you figure out what year this British Vogue magazine cover is from?

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Click “read more” below for a few hints, and then to find out the answer …

First a few hints:

1. It ran on the 90th Anniversary collector’s edition.

2. The issue’s editor was Audrey Withers; the photographer for this photo was Norman Parkinson.

3. The image was reused for a Vogue book in 1991, but the cigarette was airbrushed out.

4. The saloon car featured is a Rover 105.

5. Color was the theme: “Fuchsia - for autumn brilliance” was one of only two cover headlines.

Any guesses yet…?

…really, you want me to just tell you what the answer is?

Ok.

The date that this gorgeous cover hit newsstands for British Vogue was …


AUGUST 1957

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