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Bridgetown Advocate

Location

Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia

Date

Apr 21, 1949

Page

11

Paris fashion shows embrace matching umbrellas with ensembles

Paris designers push the ensemble idea with matching umbrellas in dress shows. Legroux Aire vu showcases white pique hats with frilled brims and matching neckties while Maudel ano features gloves to pair with turban drapes. Umbrellas appear across lines from Vecdvenne to Le Vautrin with sculpted handles and novelty bits like tiny gold aspirin caskets.

Paris Legroux Aire Maudelano Vecdvenne Christian Dior Merlin

Formal Attire Described in 1920s Catalog

The article details formal wear with ballerina-length cocktail gowns, some matching stoles, and bare shoulders. Day hats feature feather trims while large roses dominate cocktail hat designs. One hat uses overlapping pink rose petals with two full-size roses as side trim.

Dashing New Race Fashions in Sydney Preview

Three hundred fifty women attended a Sydney preview of race fashions with luxury furs worth £20000 and autumn hats. Models showcased gabardine wool and fur felt hats and new trim skirts with long fitted panels. Suits appeared in pale blue navy grey pink and black and the event supported the Food for Babies Fund.

Sydney Food For Babies Fund

Fungus Facts and Spore Production Estimates

A fragment notes that soil not recently matured holds about one million spores per gram. The puffball, a common fungus, is described as highly prolific with billions of spores produced from a single specimen. It suggests one puffball could yield a vast volume of spores, capable of dwarfing Earth in theoretical size.

EERTS

Paris Spring Hats Split Between Feminine and Ultra Sophisticated

The new spring collections show hats will be softly feminine or ultra sophisticated with side drapes and sweeping brims. Feminine straw hats are popular with designers, while the ultra-sophisticated styles demand a flawless coiffure and good profile before wearing.

Paris

New Table Uses For Modern Domestic Economy

A modern show features a versatile three unit sideboard suitable for kitchen lounge or nursery. Two small articles form a coffee table when joined and a bedside table when separated, with upside down units creating a cocktail cabinet. Designers urge young couples to build stylish, affordable homes with modular furniture.

Magistrate Rules Tenant Bathing Rights Exceed Property Claims

In Brooklyn Texas Magistrate Frances W Lelirich ruled that a landlord cannot limit the number of baths a tenant may take, noting that human rights take precedence over property rights in the dispute.

Brooklyn Frances W. Lelirich

Deaf mute sues for damages over love claims

Gleason G. Grizzard of Georgia faced a 16000 dollar suit from Leslie Campos, a deaf mute, alleging he talked too much to her and about her. The petition accuses him of fevered marriage promises, coercive signs, taunts, and withdrawal of marriage vows.

Georgia Gleason G. Grizzard Tiss Leslie B. Campos Grizzard

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