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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1932
Page
4
A 1932 Western Newspaper Union piece reviews summer beach wear emphasizing practicality. It highlights a two piece pajama style over a one piece swimsuit and then explores brassiere-inspired beach outfits with strap designs, tailoring, and durene mesh.
Diagonal weave and bias cuts dominate summer fashion as Paris approves criss cross stripes on sweaters blouses dresses and coats. Designers favor diagonal lines to elongate the figure and create a slashing effect, replacing older horizontal and vertical stripes.
Paris women embrace beige as a top summer color. Beige silks and beige woolens command demand in shops. Fashion houses report many clients ordering beige outfits. The season shows beige paired with black accents, especially in coats with black accessories.
A new silk or gandie fabric will be seen everywhere this summer. It appeals to mature women who feel gandie evening frocks suit them better than cotton. The weave imitates cotton, the fabric is grand for evening wear, with fascinating prints and a refined look.
Polka dots flourish in fashion invading millinery with hat and scarf sets as a key attraction. Dots appear as white on dark or reversed in navy and white brown and beige red and white or green with white. Beret or brimmed hats work with scarves, emphasizing smart original wear.
A description of dresses featuring elbow length capes and bleeve style sleeves edged with thick ruches of chiffon flowers. The piece notes formal afternoon wear and informal evening silhouettes emphasizing chiffon fabric and decorative capes.
Bright blue sailor hats and colored belts with gay bags of shiny patent leather are featured as fashionable accessories to complement smart outfits.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr burst into a First National studios writers conference to present a newly imagined Hamlet plot. He detailed it but the group rejected it as episodic and unworkable. He departed with a grin and noted the irony that someone had deemed his idea good.
A Cairo youth joked his father had died while the elder was away. The father rebuked him upon return, the son fled into the Nile, and the staged funeral preparations became the real funeral event for the son.
A 12 foot long 51 foot wide giant dollar bill is being finished at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington DC. It is largely made from macerated old currency and is estimated to be worth about 10 million dollars. The bill will be used for exhibition purposes.
A Washington Star line quotes Senator Sorg asserting the need to consider both sides. The reply warns that persistent seeking of both sides could hinder clear progress, potentially leaving a reader cross-eyed.
An elderly man speaks of sorrow and loss as he contemplates a missing partner. The dialogue hints at personal grief and lingering memory within a strained conversation fragment.
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