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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1944
Page
6
A feature on turning everyday cotton flour bags into hundreds of useful items and apparel. Tips include dyeing, rick rack trimming, and using unbleached bag fabric for dresses, pinafores, sun-suits, and accessories. Western Newspaper Union release highlights savings and patriotic fabric reuse.
A guide advises women with fuller hips to avoid slim straight skirts unless cut with deep pleats or center back and front fullness. Pleats preserve side lines while allowing movement and conceal the thigh shape. Six gore or four gore cuts can add flare and create a graceful silhouette.
The article urges practical yet decorative garden attire for the modern farmerette. It highlights denim overalls and striped denim, white cotton shirts, a lined denim work apron, a pinafore frock in striped denim or seersucker, and bold rick rack trims. A large Mexican inspired straw hat completes the look, plus a plaid water resistant bag for exchanges with neighbors.
The article highlights a spring dinner gown of soft rayon crepe with a broken cup and saucer inspired print in white pink and blue on black. It features cap sleeves or none, self fabric bows at the decollete, and a slim softly gathered front skirt.
A vintage sketch shows three matching brackets forming a quaint heart design over a davenport. The center bracket is fourteen inches wide with smaller brackets on each side, and the pattern is cut from wood by boring holes and sawing with common tools.
The Cassquiare canal in Brazil acts as a natural waterway exchanging routes seasonally. It links the Orinoco at flood tide to the Amazon and the Amazon at flood tide to the Orinoco depending on rainfall.
In the Santa Cruz islands of the South Seas wives are reportedly purchased using money made from feathers. The odd practice reflects local customs where feather currency negotiates unions and marriages amid island communities.
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