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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
4
Report from a matinee featuring Bella Denna highlights a shift toward restrained elegance in headwear and gowns. Observers praise natural lines, simple coiffures, and minimal adornment, noting the de-emphasis of heavy hairpieces and the rise of sleek, refined outfits with tailored details.
The sapphire leads as a popular ornament this winter with long coats of seal skin and velvet trims shaping the season. Slashed shirts, watered silk designs, furs, contrasting eyes in gowns, and high chasuble collars define new evening wear. Skirts stay slender while innovative trims, sashes, and belts, along with velvet, mink, and sable furs, feature in coats, gowns, and morning attire.
Readable text outlines intricate millinery craft describing hat types used by noble wearers. It covers crown shapes, trims, and headwear construction like toque styles with velvet and felt bands, detailing how pieces fit and fasten to the head. The item, though garbled, emphasizes decorative mantling and early hatmaking techniques.
A fragment from the Millinery Trade Review discusses aigrette plumes used to make hats stand forward. It notes some milliners have revived this style as a novelty, though it remains unusual and not yet widely adopted, with potential future adoption in hats.
A fragmented verse vignette depicts militant suffrage supporters marching to Albany with elder, daughter, and wife companions. It envisions Gov. Billy and notable women such as Col Lavinia and Major Jeannette leading a playful, period dress parade celebrating suffrage, while mockingly praising ornate fashions and parade regalia.
In a dry Mesopotamian landscape forty miles from Baghdad the author notes ruined cities and vanished populations. Only the mudwalled Khan of Mamoudieh and a river town Massye appear as human habitation. Night temple bells silence as jackals haunt the cemetery and camels crowd the bazar while muezzins call to morning prayers.
New York millinery shows mid winter fashion with bold contrasts between black velvet and plush hats and lavish ostrich trim. Large and medium hats highlight elaborate ostrich use, while small fur hats with paradise or ostrich trim offer contrast to the dominant styles. The Georgette flat hat appears as an early season trend.
Fashion notes describe street and evening wear hats featuring velvet plush or fur with paradises and parades in Paris style. Describes brim shapes, fur bands, and ribbon trims, plus popular taupe, blue, gold, and black palettes. mentions orchids and gardenias for evening outfits and a thriving hat trade. Also reports local fires, burglaries, car accidents, a murder suspect, and a bankruptcy petition in Norwalk area.
An OCR fragment promotes a Foley Kidney Pill claiming to aid elderly kidney and bladder function. It mentions names like Timese and Mian Bawster and references events at Stratford Avenue and Bisth’ trent with a Friday evening and Thursday event, plus a Farmers Want Ads note.
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