Paris Fashion Writers Predict Modernized Victorian Revival
Paris fashion writers note a shift toward ornate elegance in evening wear while rejecting a full return to Victorian silhouettes. Modernized embellishment balances with the postwar mode, featuring decorative backs, rich fabrics, and varied colors, with women steering toward tasteful restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward McAllister
Paris
New York Herald-Tribune
Paris Couture
Victoria
Louiseboulanger
Chanel
Renee
Rag Rugs Return to Fashionable Homes
The piece highlights rag rugs as a proud colonial heritage revived by women. It notes rag rug making through hooking weaving or plaiting as a revived craft, with a hooked rug example described showing burlap foundation and marked pattern.
New Aprons Offered in Annual Christmas Crop
New varieties are disclosed in the annual crop of aprons for the Christmas season. This year includes an immaculate white lawn set with an apron collar and cuffs designed for neatness and coordinated trimming.
Weird merrymakers guard beauty secrets in a boudoir display
In a quirky scene strange wire figures and yarn creatures decorate a boudoir. Some stand guard over small axes concealing beauty secrets while others hang like a fierce Turk figure beside the two odd creatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milady
Turk
The Kitchen Cabinet Excerpt From 1926 Column
The readers are reminded that hopes often fail to appear yet there is compensation in good things that appear unexpectedly as noted by Lloyd in this 1926 Western Newspaper Union column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Lloyd
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Clear Complexion
Advertisement extols Cuticura Soap to cleanse skin scalp and hands with daily use and occasional ointment plus Cuticura Talcum for fragrance. It also promotes Cole's arborisalve for burning skin diseases claiming scar-free healing and lists prices and distributor J W Cole Co Rockford Illinois.
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Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Ill
Curried Chicken and Antique Sweets Trio Menu
Readable text outlines chicken based dishes and sweets. Chicken Chop Suey and Curried Chicken use minced meat, rice and gravy with onions peppers and beans. Ginger Bread and several candies include Cherry Marshmallow Fudge Molasses Taffy and Butterscotch with steps for boiling, pulling and flavoring.
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