senatorial summer styles
if you are like me, then you are continually leafing through all the latest fashion magazines to see what the hot new summer styles are going to be in the u.s. senate.
- senator vandenberg (r-mi) in dressy flannels and a barbershop quartet hat
- senator byrd (d-va) in a double-breasted white linen pharmacist’s jacket
- future president harry truman (d-mi) in snappy tropical worsted and hepcat lapels
- senator bankhead (d-al) in seersucker and posing hard
- senator neely (d-wv) wearing a palm beach suit and brand new bowling shoes
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source: life magazine june 1938
