Print, Photographic

Print. Black and white photographic print of a window display which features the latest women's fashions available at The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Eight female mannequins are featured across the display, and all are dressed in the latest winter fashions including jackets cinched at the waist with varying types of embellishments, calf-length skirts, hats with birdcages, and footwear. The middle of the display is adorned with a large wood-carved arch which features a woman, and a grapevine. Signage in the central foreground reads, "The New Winter Collection of Colleen Originals, Showing Fashion Forward Hip-Emphasizing Lines and Tiny Waistlines, Misses Shop, Sixth Floor, Woodward." The date, photographic sequence number, company name, and photographer's name are printed on the bottom of the recto, "10-22-47; 22957-x; The J.L. Hudson Company; Photography by Davis B. Hillmer."