Velvet Trim Fashion Takes The Fall Runway
Cherie Nicholas reports a global fashion trend of velvet trimming across coats dresses and suits this season. Designers showcase black velvet sleeves yokes and front panels with bold accessories including emerald centerpieces silver fox muffs and chapeau. Velvet trims appear on long coats jackets two piece suits and dramatic pencil slim dresses with velveteen collars buttons and pockets highlighting a new era of artful expression.
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House of Design
Union
Too Late A Doctor’s Gun Foiled by News of Death
A country doctor known for carrying a gun on rounds encounters a farmer who asks whom he will see. The doctor replies he will visit Old Bert Hinkle at Four Oaks farm, only to learn Bert had died the previous night.
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Bert Hinkle
Four Oaks Farm
Dentist and patient exchange over advice from a druggist
A comical courtroom style exchange has a dentist asked if the patient had prior advice about teeth. The patient reveals a druggist told him to visit the dentist, prompting a humorous clash over who gave proper guidance.
Fur-Faced Hats Create Sensation For Winter Fashion
A fashion feature touts fur-faced broad-brimmed hats paired with fur coats in beaver and smooth furs such as Persian lamb, black sealskin, leopard, and ermine. The trend includes matching fur hats with muffs and sets a white fur theme as a pronounced vogue this winter.
Fashion-Wise Use Bright Colorful Clothes This Season
This season favors bold color in fashion with vivid combinations across coats, suits, plaids, hats, and accessories. Designers emphasize striking contrasts, with neutral tops paired to color panels and black frocks featuring color blocks in green, cerise, and purple crepe. Dare as much color as you please this season.
Newest Hats Made Of Pasted Feathers
A season of bold plumage brings hats crafted entirely from pasted feathers in vivid colors. Styles range from broad brim to novel shapes and turbans, with dark furs pairing for striking contrast. Felt casuals show quills, feather ties, and new felt bretons and velvet hats with brilliant feather fringe.
Frilled Curtains Lift Home Window Glamour
Ruth Wyeth Spears explains how frilled curtains add lavish fullness to windows. A diagonal dart creates a high drape, with rose and plum flowered chintz tie backs and a valance. Lampshade and spool table enhance the look, with directions in Sewing Book 1 and spool table in Book 5.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Tron
Equitable Balance Between Fortunes Cited in Thought
The remark notes a moral compensation where good will and ill fortune offset each other. It suggests both outcomes carry intrinsic exchanges, implying the value of virtue persists regardless of circumstance.
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America
Jayne & Son
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