Traveling ladies from Searcy Arkansas with fashion notes.

Two more pictures contributed by my blogging buddy, Anita Hart.  Her mother is in each of them and they were traveling.  The first picture shows the ladies in Hot Springs Arkansas in the mid 50's.  She has the identity of some of them.  Her mother, Corrine Hart, Inez Pickens (Dean of Women at Harding College), Margurrite O'Bannion (Exec. Secretary to Dr. George Benson), Myrtle Roberson (owner of the Rendezvous Restaurant), and an unknown lady with the long fur tails.

The long furs were so popular then.  I think the more furs you had, and they still had the heads on them, the more money you had.

Personally, I never had any fox or fur heads and tails. 

They definitely had to have on high heels (but not as high as today's!) hats and gloves and the little purses that matched the shoes.

That was during a time when fashion dictated the length of the dress.  It appears that fashion said to have the skirt about mid-calf and these ladies, who loved to be fashionable, followed to the inch!

The next picture finds girls at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis TN.  They are actually on top of the Peabody.  That's where the famous Peabody ducks live.

For those who have never heard of the Peabody, it is famous for the ducks who march into the lobby to spend the day swimming in the fountain and basking in the love and adoration of the guests at the hotel.  At the end of the day they march back up to their home on the roof.

A red carpet is laid down for the little ducks to walk on.

They again have on their hats and probably gloves are somewhere present.  Two-toned pumps must have been in style.  No doubt the purses matched the shoes.  Corinne Hart, our famous one, is second from our right.  Looks like slightly askew hats may have been the rage!