Women's Ways and Wardrobe Trends in Wartime Fashion
Folded into wartime life the article reviews women’s fashion emphasizing pleated skirts and circular bias cuts, with pockets as key style features. It highlights new models, fabric behavior, and makeup notes while offering beauty tips and practical wartime beauty routines. It also includes odd housekeeping tips about starch, grapefruit rinds, and a home beauty regimen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goren
Aporia
AL Tieve Akirta
Gero
USEHOLD HELPS FOR TOASTS AND CLEANING TIPS
Practical tips on toasting bread by turning, cleaning teapots with malt and vinegar, dropping a candy into a cash slot, making enamel cleaner from sulfur and sap powder, and sharpening old razors with pumice. Also notes on washing delicate underwear, weathering water effects, keeping powder fresh, and facial patting for circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
Apple dessert with gelatine and chocolate layers
A fragmented recipe article details multiple apple desserts. It instructs soaking gelatin, beating egg whites, and folding lemon juice into apple puree. It covers making custards with vanilla, sugar, and cream, then assembling moulds with chocolate, fruit, and jelly layers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Make-Up’s Rise in Modern Female Image
A fragmented OCR passage notes makeup as integral to contemporary femininity and public presentation. It discusses makeup alongside clothing diet jewelry and grooming as essential for appearance and social expectations. The text hints at gender norms and male perceptions tied to female adornment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alukeap
Bell
Uhut
Aida
Hints on Baking and Kitchen Practices From an Old Guide
Practical tips on pastry baking, pie shells, and kitchen prep. Cover pies with greaseproof paper, fill shells with dried beans, bake evenly, and remove filler before serving. Tips cover mould care, washing eggs, dusting flour, soaking dried fruit, freezing dishes, and keeping vegetables green with boiling water and soda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook Inlet
Alcoholic fumes lecture echoes dangers of drink
A lecture warned of the harmful effects of alcohol and long term indulgence. An anecdote described a man reportedly killed by spontaneous combustion after years of heavy drinking as a German audience member claimed lives were saved by the talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwe
BUMMER DESSERTS Orange Cream Souttie
A broken OCR recipe for an orange cream dessert. Ingredients mention orange jelly condensed milk orange flavoring and egg white. Instructions describe dissolving jelly setting, beating condensed milk, folding in whites, and chilling in a mould then serving with orange and angelica.
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Wlacine
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