Fashions Shift To Wider Short Skirts And Elegant Accessories
Fashions variety is the ginger of stylish frocks with season changing from tight long skirts to wide short hems. New York society seeks modesty with rules against skirts more than four inches above the ground as cane trends and tunics reappear. The era’s silhouettes feature satin basques, striped skirts, lace sleeves, and dragonfly gowns in blue tissuels with decorative bows and winged accents.
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Sing Ho For the Crocheted Hat Trends This Year
The article praises crocheted hats as a family craft likely to keep the crochet hobbyists busy. It notes hats with silk linings and infant sizes, highlighting the current season’s fashion and practical warmth while suggesting a mushroom shaped frame as a starting point for creation.
Things Worth Knowing From A Practical Guide
A practical guide offers household tips for various tasks. It covers using macaroni as a glass tube for patients, removing ink stains with spirits of water, and anchoring mended china in sawdust. It also includes sandwich preservation, glass cutting tricks, and simple techniques for lifting hot pans. It then discusses crocheted hats with Mercerized cotton, colors, crown shapes, and minimal trimming ideas.
Dainty Lace Flowers Highlight New Hat Adornments
The novelties of the season feature dainty valenciennes lace flowers shaped like tiny roses, hand colored and used as hat accents. Sailor hats gain wider crowns, toques show torpedo shapes, and high crowns appear on small flat brimmed hats. Suede hats trimmed with gardenias and scarlet or violet accents complete the latest style.
Petticoats Return Like The Swallow Revival In Fashion
Petticoats have returned as supply meets demand with new white muslin and Hamburg models. The article notes affordable yet durable options, suggests layering with various skirts, and forecasts revival of ornate petticoats once priced at $35. Also includes simple home care tips and fabric care notes for everyday items.
Cooling drinks and lemonades from a vintage beverage guide
A vintage guide describes making Raspberry Vinegar, Cherry Water, Pineapple Orange Apple drinks, Ammonada syrup, and almond cordial. Instructions cover washing lemons, squeezing juice, boiling syrups, and chilling mixtures, with ratios for sugar and water and notes on straining and bottling for serving.
Odd Puffs RE disguise powder puff revamp ideas
Two new ways to disguise a powder puff are described. A purse shaped pouch uses ribbon, silk, tassel, and ivory rings to hold a powder puff and a small mirror. The second design features a bisque ballerina figure with malines skirts that cover a glass powder jar and can be refreshed when soiled.
New Fastening Tricks In Fashions For Evening Wear
New methods in dress fastenings captivate women in a range of fabrics. Velvet cords pass through heavy buttonholes with jet spikes at the ends, showcased on black taffeta and oyster white gowns with blue ribbon. Covered hooks and eyes in matching or contrasting colors appear on front or back, while a white satin turban completes the ensemble alongside jet ornaments and white uppers.
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