Moderately Priced Frocks for Summer Style Trends
A Maude Hall adapted home dress guide praises cottons and tub fabrics for summer wardrobes. It highlights straight lines with hip emphasis, white voile dresses with plaited skirts, gingham substitutions to cut costs, and detachable necklines. The piece notes accordion plaiting, net edgings, and voile’s popularity with Egyptian inspired fabrics and voile dominance in favored designs.
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Worle
Maude Hall
Vance
Nasturtium Blouse Fashion in Crepe de Chine Style
ARIS adopts nasturtium tones for gay blouses to pair with skirts. The shown blouse, a crepe de chine slip-on with square front, deep neck, and short sleeves, features gold-brown buttons and silk cord. Manual cutting, perforations, and careful assembly are detailed, with emphasis on sewing and finishing steps. Wool embroidery enhances the lower edge and neck for a dressy touch.
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Aris
Aker
Russian Potatoes and Potato Waffle Recipe Notes
Instructions describe making Russian style potatoes with onion, butter substitute, sour cream, and seasonings, simmered until tender and not mushy, finished with a shake of the pan. A separate waffle batter uses riced potatoes, milk, baking powder, flour, melted butter substitute and salt, baked in a hot waffle iron and served with maple syrup.
Motifs For The Charming Straw Embroideries
A design guide by Kathryn Mutterer explores straw embroideries as a fashion staple. The piece details border and motif options, color, materials like raffia and soutache braid, and quick garment embroidery potential for children. It also describes related patterns and Pictorial Review dress and blouse offerings with pricing and pattern numbers.
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Kathryn Mutterer
Potato Soup for Children's Luncheon Recipe
A simple potato soup method using one pint sliced raw potatoes one to four small onions one pint water one pint whole milk with pepper and salt. Boil until tender add milk, season to taste, serve hot. Potatoes and onions can be skimmed and rubbed through a colander for smoother texture.
Cottage Potatoes Recipe Card
Four large potatoes with salt pepper drippings and one egg yolk are prepared. Bake until half done, slice thinly, dip in beaten yolk seasoned with pepper and salt, roll in bread crumbs and fry in drippings until light brown.
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