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" Picture: Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar Seventy years ago, the American edition of Bazaar turned its eye with sober patriotism on the home front. It was the height of World War II; American troops, like their British counterparts, had been posted abroad, and the women left behind found themselves living out an ambivalent new order, determined to make a contribution but uneasy about the future. It felt imperative that the magazine hold a mirror up to its readers\u2019 lives, whether they were women entering the workplace for the first time or wartime brides holding the fort at home with only an occasional letter from their husbands to agonise over. The natural choice to shoot these covers was Louise Dahl-Wolfe, one of the few female fashion photographers of the time. During her tenure at Bazaar from 1936 to 1958, she pioneered the use of colour and championed a looser, less constricted style of dress \u2013 namely, sportswear \u2013 that came to epitomise the modern American woman. Her 1943 covers were true to the spirit of the time; often practical, always patriotic, especially the March cover, a call to action in which the young Lauren Bacall, favoured by Diana Vreeland, was made a poster girl for giving blood. On seeing the cover, Howard Hawks\u2019 wife Nancy urged her husband to screen test the young model for his upcoming film, To Have and Have Not, resulting in not only the actress\u2019 feature debut, but also one of the greatest wartime movies.\u00A0\u00A0 This piece was originally published in the March 2013 issue of Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar. *** MORE NEWS Lauren Bacall dies aged 89Lauren Bacall&amp;#039;s life in pictures \u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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