Dressy gowns show varied circular flounces in 1901 styles
Special Correspondence outlines current fashion in London influenced dress trends. Black gowns use contrasting textures like mousseline net and crepe de chine while black and white combinations feature lace and net overlays. The blouse waist remains popular with versatile trims and new shirt styles described alongside decorative bows and mittens for evening wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
New York
London
Fashion Notes From The Millinery Line And Society
A fitness guide to fabrics and trims outlines taffeta costs and newer belts while detailing hat fashions and floral accents. It highlights decorative shawls redesigned as overskirts and notes rising rose motifs, long ground trains, and pink dominant blossoms alongside updates on coats and earrings.
All About Gloves Fashion Trends Across Styles
The article notes white gloves lead for years with dogskin models in cream shades and coachman styles. It describes morning, afternoon, and evening gloves from suede to embroidery, black suede with rhinestones, and embellished mittens for luncheons, highlighting fashionable appeal and accessories like turquoise accents and bracelets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose
Unlucky Party and Dress Debate Across The Ages
An invited Friday the 13th party features superstitions and elaborate rituals from ladders to mirrors, followed by stories of misfortune and a critique of American dress taste. The discussion includes comments on French fashion and Worth, Bok, and the luxury of simple gowns versus overelaborate styles.
Unlucky Tale At Dinner Party Ends On High Note
Guests at a dinner party played a superstition game with misfortune themed tasks. Each guest voted on who told the luckless incident, awarding a prize a four leaf clover chatelaine with a rabbit foot and horseshoe. Exiting by a back stairs door with a horseshoe hung there, they hoped to negate evil. No misfortune followed those present.
Worth Says Elegance Lies in Simple Dress
The famed French dressmaker Worth argued that true elegance in a gown comes from simplicity. He criticized women, especially American women, for overloading dresses with adornments that serve only dressmaking profits. He insisted there is nothing higher than simple elegance.
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Worth
America
Edward Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Interlaced haircloth skirt pattern for summer wear
Interlacing of haircloth cut six inches deep creates a sturdy summer skirt. The lower edge finishes in the usual way and the many seams prevent sagging after washing and ironing. The pattern features an inverted box plait at the center back and suggests gathering into the waistband for easier ironing.
Cleaning and Restoring Antique Lace Methods
Instructions describe soaking old lace in soapy ammonia solution, then washing and pressing with flannel. White silk lace is rolled or bottled and soaked in warm milk soapsuds overnight, followed by drying. A coffee bath can impart a yellow tint to achieve aged color.
Buffalo women plan for pan American exposition center
Buffalo's 25 women on a board led by Mrs Willam Hamlin publish an illustrated plan for the coming pan American exposition. Six sub committees oversee women interests with chairs named for entertainment education publicity arts and administration. The women's building will be a rose garden two story clubhouse serving as social space reading room and headquarters for visitors.
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Buffalo
Willam Hamlin
John Miller Horton
Charles Cary
Ida C Bender
Alfred G. Hauenstein
Tracy C. Becker
Europe
New York State Federation
Federation of Women’s Literary and Educational Clubs
New York
New Jersey Federation
New Jersey
Daughters of the Confederacy
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
National Household Economic Association
Queen Sophia saying echoed in a daughter's play keeps books
Florence Miller, six, helps her father a Bloomington real estate operator by keeping his books. A prized Craig-y-Nos doll admired by Mme. Patti highlights the era's affection for treasured childhood keepsakes.
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Queen Sophia of
Sweden
Florence Miller
Bloomington
Craig-y-Nos
Mme. Patti
Baltimore and Ohio to weigh engineers under two hundred pounds
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces a weight limit of 200 pounds for engineers. Existing staff will not be dismissed, but new hires must meet the restriction due to reduced space from boiler extensions in newer engines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame la Mode
Henrietta
Colorado
Evangeline Heart
Mary Walker
New York
Mary
Henrietta Hume Monroe
Wide
Norman L
Monroe
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Great Men Have Faith in Peruna as Catarrh Remedy
A collection of endorsements from U.S. Senators, congressmen, governors, and other notable figures praising Peruna as an effective tonic and cure for catarrh and related ailments. Statements from Gen Joe Wheeler U. S. Senator W N Roach Governor G W Atkinson and Belva A Lockwood are quoted, along with letters from Miss Anna Bryan and Mrs. James Longstreet.
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Sullivan, Roach
Memory
Joe Wheeler
Wheeler
Ala
U. S
W. N. Roach
Larimore
N. Dakota
W. H. Ogden
Louisiana
G. W. Atkinson
Charleston
W. Va
Judson W. Lyons
Register of Treasury
Washington, DC
Nellie Hanna
M. A. Hanna
Anna Bryan
Wm. J. Bryan
Florida Ave
N. W
Washington, D. C
James Longsvert
Gainesville
James Longstreet
Belva A. Lockwood
Senator Roach
Verona E. Roach
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India
Scotland
George Hume
Dumfries
At -Roglyn
I. T
Ll. BP. Taber Willets
Virginija C. Meredith
Cambridge
Ind
Agricultural Colleges For
Mary Go'd Woodcock
Ripley
Missouri
Minnie Kulick
Nellie Hawks
Friend
Neb
Lucca
N. D
Mary R. Vance
Duke
Summerville
N. J
Maggie Smith
Dr. Chasuble
Miss Swift
Parson
Arthur Cox
Hickory Cricksmaller
Washington, D C
Peru
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