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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
3
A New York shop showcases French made costumes with restrained trimming and practical design. Observers note that minimal details, smart color pairing, and versatile scraps inspire lasting style, while avoiding excess.
Mary Oran describes a practical reuse of worn bath towel sections to craft a bath glove. She outlines rough cutting and stitching into a one piece item, backed, bound at the wrist with tape, and suggests an eight by four and half inch glove size using a nine and a half by eight and a half inch fabric piece. A tape loop allows hanging on a wall.
Harper's Bazar notes smocked frocks with linen trim suit young girls at the junior stage. As children age the smocked style may add a pale ribbon sash. Later practical linen outfits endure washing, with party wear featuring white or deer lawn layers and color accents. Accessories like socks hair ribbons and belts complete the coordinated look.
Fashion rumors promise white frocks for the coming season with frequent wear. Light fabrics such as bhheer batistes, marquizette, cotton voiles, mull, and albaster will shape lingerie frocks while heavier fabrics like linens, rep piques, and lawns appear for outerwear.
A Vogue for black and white hats with ribbon and straw shapes. Three lead models display trims using flowers, brads, and velvets. Fig 1 features a white chip hat with a wide double Alsatian bow and brown garden roses. Fig 2 shows bronze and purple tones with a wild flower spray. Fig 3 presents a horn color straw with drooping brim, roses, moss, and a black velvet band.
The article explains quick ways to diversify fancy women’s slippers using rosettes and trims. It describes rosette-making from ribbon, flat fronettes, rhinestone beads, and decorative butterflies, plus color-coordinated options with gowns. It notes black slippers pair well with white or colored rosettes and that trims can be swapped to refresh a look.
The article explains distinct outfits for young girls and their escorts, noting morning styles use heavy leather belts in buckled designs, brighter colors, and leather accents, while afternoon attire favors kid leather belts, soft suede-like finishes, and color-matched ribbons. After age five, boys also switch to leather belts.
A home wear dress described in mulberry cashmere with a tulled under skirt and attached tatting trim. Bodice is tucked and crossed over a cream ninon vest, sleeves tucked ninon with edging. Material needs include six yards 46 inch fabric, six yards lining, ninon trim and one and a half yards ninon. Magorie dresses will feature maslin scarfs replacing last year’s chiffon.
A fragment from a period column describes a tea table novelty using figs nuts and marshmallows, plus observations on old fashion sashes stockings and sewing tricks. It mentions milk and brandy or sherry flavoring, and hints at practical wardrobe hints like pillowcase folding and stocking repairs, with comic asides about neighbors.
Heavy gray linen is widely used as a background for embroideries in home decor. Rooms in country houses feature gray linen for bed hangings cushions tablecloths and window treatments. Embroideries in several colors include violet green pale yellow and turquoise to create elaborate designs like wood fairies and fantastical motifs.
A COmpAny LOS patent describes a rope made from paper coated with galvanized steel wire to create a strong, tough and flexible product. The inventor claims the wind rope lasts about 50 percent longer than cotton, suitable for clothes and similar uses.
A simple shoulder bag pattern uses stout brown paper to form a large envelope. The guide explains folding, cutting two inch side slits, trimming corners, and attaching cord handles before tucking the finished bag into a suitcase corner.
The article describes several artificial silk manufacturing methods using ordinary cellulose. One process yields a safe rayon-like fiber, while the nitrocellulose route creates dangerous guncotton fabric if denitrated improperly.
A Harper's Bazar note discusses the belt position on small girls frocks with hobble skirts. Opinions differ on ideal waist placement, some dresses showing belts near normal while others drop toward the hem hindering walking and provoking humorous contrasts with adult attire.
In this Harper's Bazaar snippet the Worning describes a Russian blouse of natural-colored linen paired with a wide patent-leather belt as practical for a boy. A brown boot and stocking combination completes the dress, with low shoes and socks popular for children. Leather leggings outdoors stay until warm weather.
The description notes Bulgarian dress features fringes and white linen underskirts with scabbed bottoms. Overtulle gathers many threads symbolizing nations, while red dyed trims recall home, with gowns embroidered to reflect local industry and produce images.
A fragment notes a fashion item described as a model from Paris by Lewis of Paris. The piece mentions a black chip hat adorned with a spray of crimson roses and black velvet bawa, indicating a stylish millinery description from a Parisian influence.
The model coat in made up in rich red faced cloth, yet the style is adaptable to serge tweed velveteen or similar materials. The collar and cuffs are faced nearly with this design.
The text notes rococo rose motifs replacing buckles in hats and blouses, with silk satin and gold accents. It details garment materials for coats and linings, highlights the trend of long gold cords on handbags, and describes how velvet handbags, black moire, and gold tassels enhance street fashion.
In big cities craft workers repurpose old items into ornaments with sentimental value. A ring crafted from a thimble, a yellow diamond, and cairngorm pebble. a neck chain pendant using turquoise matrix. and inexpensive rose diamonds as affordable dainty pieces. Girls wear real jewelry as they reach suitable ages, with gifts marking occasions and birthdays.
The peasant coiffure gains votaries as a picturesque adaptation of the original design. Hair is parted at the center, plaited at the sides and rolled over the ears in a spiral mound. The back curls are piled higher on the crown, and children wear a similar look with crisply plaited locks above the ears.
A fragment discusses mourning fashion noting women may wear only black jewelry to suit proper attire. It mentions dowpost black and engagement rings, with some women omitting rings altogether and carrying appropriate bags and accessories.
A neighboring exchange reveals tensions about funding hens this spring. One speaker questions planned support while the other asserts control over the project and warns of changes. The dialogue implies local governance concerns and family or community tensions.
Simple strawberry desserts detailed with bright molds and contrasts. Includes bombe glace lining with charlotte russe, strawberry ice, strawberry hearts in sponge cake, strawberry tarts, and strawberry sponge dessert folded with beaten egg whites and gelatine, served with whipped cream and berries.
A reflective verse fragment notes how daily sights like the sun moon and flowers become beautiful through perception. It contrasts ordinary scenes with the idea that God transforms the commonplace into beauty, ending with a meditation on perception and value.
A miscellany of aphorisms from Abraham Lincoln to common folk, plus household tips on cocoa mixtures with corn starch, leftover pastry dough for tarts, coffee aroma care, veal and cream pie method, grape tapioca, and a joke about a dinner invitation. Mentions Mrs Moth Miller and Tomas Browning.
An amusing observation notes that tall intellects with modest skulls and others with large heads have varied brains. The writer ponders whether head size correlates with genius and mentions poets like Shelley as a tall man with a small head and other notable minds.
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