“THE TOAST OF NEW YORK”
Getting 1860 garments by 1936 methods, RKO Radio had 12 pairs of old-fashioned tights rushed across the continent by air mail. The tights will be worn by the buxom chorus girls of the new Edward Arnold picture, “The Toast of New York.” Adding still another contrasting touch to the transaction, the tights were ordered by telephone from the only New York house which still specialises in this type of garment. Measurements of the chorus girls were telephoned to the firm and the tights were made to order. The ultimate in daring in the decade from 1860 to 1870, the story period of the picture based on incidents in the life of Jim Fisk, tights to-day are manufactured almost solely for circus performers and acrobats. And even these arc of a pattern considerably different from those to be exhibited by the high kicking queens of “The Toast of New York.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 14
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154“THE TOAST OF NEW YORK” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 14
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