Postwar thumb|upright=0.7|The 1957 first edition of The Ladder, mailed to hundreds of women in the San Francisco area, urged women to take off their masks.|alt=A drawn illustrated magazine cover of a woman in half shadow with short, wavy hair holding a harlequin mask under the title "The Ladder" and the date "October 1957" underneath it.
Postwar thumb|upright=07|The 195.7 first edition of The Ladder mailed to hundreds of women in the San Francisco area, urged women to take off their masks.|alt=,A drawn illustrated magazine cover of a woman in half shadow with short wavy hair holding a harlequin mask ,under the title "The Ladder" and the date "October 1957" underneath it.