Illustration and Verse 3/6

From the June 1950 – Seventeen Magazine “How to Be Pretty Issue”
Drawings by Annabel Hagyard – Verses by Barbara Moench

Every month, during the late 1940s and early 1950s Seventeen Magazine put out a cute two page spread focusing on a theme. The intent was to teach proper femnine etiquette through adorable persuasion.

Barbara was an assistant literary editor for Seventeen. I’ve yet to find much on Annabel Hagyard, except for a reference to a publication titled, “Art Directors Annual of Advertising” from 1948.

June 1950’s theme was vanity. I plan to post a picture a day from this spread, just for a fun visual coffee break. There are six pictures with accompanying verses in all on vanity.

Cartoon art is so incredibly mid-century Americana and such a joy to look at.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall Picture 1/6

Mirror Mirror on the Wall Picture 2/6

Langston Hughes (1951 – New York : Holt)

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up
      like a raisin in the sun?
      Or fester like a sore—
      And then run?
      Does it stink like rotten meat?
      Or crust and sugar over—
      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags
      like a heavy load.

 Or does it explode?