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Fashion Notes on Styles and Modes of Apparel
A miscellany on season trends advises women to study their individual types, avoid tight gloves and shoes, and skip soap for cleansing with almond or olive oil. It predicts knickerbockers under winter dresses to replace voluminous skirts, with a new blouse-dominated silhouette. Also notes Paris fashion dictates, Empress Elizabeth’s influence on sports wear, and evolving dressmaking details. In American naval news, officers Clover and Barber shift duties, Wood and Wiiner receive assignments, and Sorge relief prompts leave.
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