1956 Continental Mark II Advertisement, "Magnificent Understatements in Fashion"

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Artifact Overview

This Vogue magazine ad linked the 1956 Continental Mark II to famous fashion designers and spoke to the vehicle's "pure, perfected simplicity."

Artifact Details

Artifact

Advertisement

Date Made

12 October 1955

Subject Date

1956

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.19.523

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 14.5 in
Width: 19 in

Inscriptions

Printed on front: FROM THE EDITORIAL PAGES OF OCTOBER 15TH VOGUE / Magnificent understatements in fashion / RAWLINGS / The new Continental, posing for its first colour picture / This car, this coat: examples of the rarest luxury of all--pure, perfected simplicity...