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San Francisco circa 1927. "Paige Landau Coupe at Lafayette Park." Latest contestant in the Shorpy Pageant of Automotive Obscurities. 5x7 glass negative by Chris Helin. View full size.
The elegantly dressed woman appears to be wearing nylon stockings. Weren't nylon stockings invented years later?
[Before nylon there was silk. -tterrace]
I enjoy your fun and usually alliterative intros of bygone auto makes and got to thinking of how much I prefer them to the recent dozen years or so of front ends of expensive cars looking like Massive Mack Machines or Bloated, Bulging Beatles. Would that I could afford a 1932 Packard 2 seater sporty 12 cylinder with maybe a rumble seat thrown in - Could this have anything to do with my being born that year , I wonder - - - ?
When it was done with style and verve.
Very elegant lady, perfectly dressed for the part.
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