Mr. Lanham Revisited: May 1, 1926

Dog bite affects evening wear

Mr. Lanham devoted his diary entry today to enthusing over his flowers, the polyantha roses, delphiniums, iris (“a lovely sight”) and wisteria. It was a “fairly good” business day at the store. The beauty of a day in May was captured in this illustration from the Wannamaker Diary of 1927, showing a woman in an evening frock (or nighty) with an expressio…