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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1899
Page
17
New York society reflections on winter functions fading amid expensive tastes and crowding, noting costly palace-like venues and private ballrooms. Describes ornate gowns in Nile green, embroidered veiling, and lavish fabrics, highlighting the era’s fashion excesses and decorative details.
Ellen Osborn surveys the season's dress fashions highlighting rising costs, luxury fabrics, and lavish party attire. She notes yearly dress expenses rising about 19 percent, with velvet bodices, Chantilly lace, and crystal embellishments shaping a glittering winter wardrobe for debutantes and society women.
The Philadelphia heiress Miss Josephine Drexel plans to leave society for a cloistered life. Reports note her aunt Miss Katherine Drexel founded a nearby convent and funded works for the poor. The family denies the announcement, yet many society figures recount her lifelong vow to religious devotion and charity work.
Isabel Pendleton, queen of a sprawling Pendleton clan in Beauregard, defies family control after years of enforced confinement. She travels to a secluded pine grove hideaway, sparking a sisterly reunion with Alice Dayton and a quiet comeback to independence that endears her to townsfolk and relays a tale of solitary resilience.
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