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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
3
New York shows off future wear with oversized hats for Miss Hattie Williams and her company in Fluffy Ruffles. Designer Wallace Morgan sketches the flat crowned wide brim styles bound with ribbon and velvet, featuring bird of paradise accents and pink rosettes.
Hints from shops point to a fall season dominated by glossy satin faced fabrics and velvet for evening and daywear. Broadcloths Venetian and serge weaves remain in demand while velvets surge as jackets and skirts evolve with directoire influences and side panel petticoats.
Buttons are a favored trimming for tailored gowns, summer frocks, and elaborate evening costumes. They run along the skirt length at one side, center front, or center back, continuing the bodice trimming to create a long-time effect.
A fragmentary verse describes a martin's flight and scent of roses awakening memories of youth and summer. The speaker recalls love long past as the martin's song echoes through a late summer day.
The Delineator extols greens as blood purifiers aiding digestion and preventing illness. It highlights asparagus for kidney issues, spinach for laxative effects, and rhubarb as a tonic with sodium and potash salts aiding vitality. Peas carrots and beets aid thin irritable people.
A Houston Post readers’ item shows a remorseful father reflecting on scolding his two young daughters Curlyhead and sister girl as they resisted bedtime. He laments the moment, wishes for gentler play, and plans to kiss them while they sleep, expressing parental guilt.
A tea gown and dinner dress duo is described, showing how a lace mull or net coat can unhook beneath a high belt to convert the tea gown into a simple decollete for bridge or informal dinners. White chiffon forms the gown with satin ribbon and cream net lace trim. Rosettes of lace and ribbon decorate the bodice and skirt.
Victor Smith recounts hiring a poor, penitent black man to whitewash a cellar. The man explains his wife, a self described lady of strings, is educated and teaches violin guitar banjo zither harp and piano. She once earned two dollars per lesson but now earns 35 cents.
New York now serves as the clothing shop of the United States with Lower Fifth Avenue at the heart of cloak and clothing manufacturing.
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