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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
8
Women weigh masculine tailoring against feminine silhouettes in spring fashion. The trend spans from streamlined basques with bouffant skirts to fully feminine frocks, with sleeves and other details reflecting individual preference rather than uniform style.
A Kansas City Star note explains making a 10 inch square linen handkerchief. Start with 2 inch hem margins, fold and baste a 1 inch hem all around, set a 7 inch monogram on white linen, embroider in black or contrasting color leaving a 1/4 inch margin. Hemstitch, edge turn, baste monogram in a corner, or choose a white hem.
The piece notes a shift in fashion as women embrace short gloves with short sleeves, leaving behind past blushes. It contrasts this trend with earlier customs, highlights wide color ranges from somber to vivid, and compares novel gloves with traditional maniee gloves worn with tailored outfits.
The article notes a guttering year for evening fashion with jewelry matching the splendor. Jewelled accessories such as bandeaux combs belts buckles and fans decorate vanity cases opera glasses purses and girdles. A Cartier girdle features a narrow band of Issue peoria with a carved jade center.
A Kansas City Star writer outlines four design basics for selecting a dress: the wearer, the occasion, general design principles, and composition elements. It warns against ill proportions from short waists or long waists and advises simple, appropriate styles over flashy combinations.
An ornate light green flannel sports coat features yellow and blue striped borders. The turn back collar shows light red and gray bands and these stripes run down the inside edge to the hem.
To achieve navy on cotton, use from one quarter to a full package of black dye added to the dye bath. The resulting shade should be deep and uniform, with the cotton absorbing color evenly for a rich navy finish.
An old advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a dependable laxative for sick children. It touts pleasant taste, gentle action, and no narcotics, urging mothers to insist on genuine California Fig Syrup with bottle directions for babies and all ages.
A reader recalls a scene where Pilgrim reaches Flymouth and lands on a rock along the road. The compact note highlights the milestone of progression and the peculiar rock encountered by the traveler.
Montreal Family Herald notes a tradition that Helena found Jesus’s crucifixion coat in the Holy Land and deposited it in Treves Cathedral. The garment was hidden from invaders, shown in 1196, then again in 1912, with Leo X limiting shows to every seven years. Over centuries many holy coats exist.
A Belgian pastime centers on cock crowing contests. Special roosters are bred and placed in adjacent cages to provoke rivalry. A marker records each bird’s crow count in roughly an hour of watching.
The note contends poverty acts as a blessing to younger generations while condemning its impact on the elderly, suggesting shifting social attitudes toward economic hardship across age groups.
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