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Newspaper advertisement for women's dresses, Paris Dress Shoppe, Allentown PA, 1930. Summer fashion, 1930. Woman's dress, 1931. A collection of swimwear, Ladies Home Journal, 1932. Dutch actress Cissy van Bennekom and model Eva Waldschmidt, 1932. Actress Joan Crawford wearing a large ruffle-sleeved gown designed by Adrian in Letty Lynton, 1932
By the time electronic television matured in the late 1930s, some more varied experimental programs, including live sportscasts and some game shows (such as the CBS Television Quiz and Truth or Consequences), were appearing; most television service was suspended beginning in 1942 because of World War II. The decade-long period of new ...
November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving. December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.
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A television set, also called a television receiver, television, TV set, TV, or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tubes .
Fashion that was popular in the 1950s. Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed.
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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.