Brown Fashion Palette For Travel And Town Wear In 1931
Brown dominates this era’s travel and town fashions, from coats and jackets in suede and leather to brown straw hats and white gloves. Accessories include brown and white prints, taffeta anklets, and exotic straws. The piece notes brown trims on hats, shoes, and a double-date dress concept enabling quick sifts from sporty to tailored ensembles. Cherid Nicholas reports.
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Eri
Panama
Cherid Nicholas
Wonters Newspaper Union
Black and White Remains in Favor in Dining Fashion
A Kansan City Star fashion note champions black and white ensembles for dining. White accessories such as hats gloves and jewelry underscore crisp outfits. a white skirt pairs with navy jackets and red accents. contrasts and textures determine chic informal looks.
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Tha
Anya
Kansans
Evening Coats Return For Winter Fashion Staples
A New York Times fashion note highlights longer evening coats returning next winter. Lucile Paray favors velvet frock coats with trailing hems, while Germaine Lecomte showcases three quarter length velvet and velveteen contrasts. Worth and Irene Dann feature white velvet jackets and new wrap designs with dropped shoulders and waist drape.
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Paria
New York Times
Lucile Paray
Germaine Lecomte
Lyons
Reno Dana Bo
Worth
Irene Dann
Dale Gray
Cotton Dress Favored for the Six-Year-Old
Fashion notes praise a maize colored pineapple mead durene cotton dress for a six year old. It features an inverted pleat at the yoke and a novel white collar as key styling elements.
Color Combinations Brighten New Modes in Color Pairings
The article describes fashion color pairings for a debutante season. It lists brown with yellow and crimson accents, gray with sapphire highlights, and combinations like brown coats with brick red or leaf green, brown accessories, and yellow accents. It notes navy with geranium red and pearl gray, and light green ensembles with dark green accents.
Young society girl passes practical test in Brookline
In Brookline Maas a young society girl took a driver license test. She demonstrated skilled car handling and perfect parking but faced a tricky oral exam. She answered with a frank line about learning to drive with the least danger to her car.
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Brookline
Maas
Not Her Hair Sparks Jewelry Worth of Compliments
A witty exchange hints at a transformation where every gesture by the husband seems to turn to gold, prompting a playful doubt about the authenticity of a hair color claim. The dialogue centers on vanity and perceived value in a domestic moment.
Tramps, Doubts, and a Chauffeur Tale
A fragmented excerpt references a tramp by a wood pile and a jesting tone from a Nousewife figure. Senator Sorghum defends his loyalty with claims of substantial political spend. Washington Star notes a comical exchange about a husband seeking to replace a dangerous chauffeur and a wife resisting the idea.
Learned Cooking While Husband Abroad
A fragment from a 19th century column shows a humorous exchange about domestic life with lines referencing a wife, mother, and in laws. The snippet hints at gendered roles and travel themes as a husband returns from abroad and comments on the prior kitchen lessons.
Moore's Cheerful Nod Sparks Park Scene Talk
A lighthearted note about Mr. Moore and a playful remark on couples in a park. The writer jokes about liking the sight and mentions involvement in a furniture business and an “enay payment” context.
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Mr. Moore
Park Seama
Lawl
Enay Payment Furniture
Fragmented Verse: Public Reaction to a Purge Mention
A fragmentary poem style note reflects public reaction to a purge response. A statesman is startled by newly found words instead of votes, with readers expressing mixed enthusiasm and critique. The piece hints at civic dialogue and partisan sentiment in a terse, reflective mood.
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Givan
Model Car Geck Regulator Riddle
A playful rhyme asks what Sut Oo drives a Regulator refers to a car model in a quiz style. Toon suggests a default or notable vehicle that others follow. The exchange hints at a vehicle named Regulator as the answer in a light, puzzle-like line.
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Sut- Oo
Yoon
Gentle Hint on a Borrowed Melory Course
Fragmentary note describes a request and a loan involving Lewis and Lit fort Clarence. It mentions an 85 amount and a Melory course, but details are unclear and names may be misread.
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Lewis
Litfort Clarence
Why Propose and Other Readings
Larry-Darling asks a question with a hinted proposal. A fragmentary note mentions Glorino and a planned event set for a week from tomorrow, with Mothay and others involved. The text reads as a personal diary style inquiry about a future occasion.
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Larry—Darling
Mothay
Local garbled note hints at misheard plea for opera request
A fragmentary OCR line shows a confused quote about an opera request and a wife urging a grant. The unreadable text suggests misheard speech with phrases like it was an opera and a hesitant plea.
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Finney
Buck
Heke
Gees Wane, MR. Finney
Felix
Harry.l
Brown Smart
New York
Sorghum
Ane
Tle
Washington Star
Larke
Itty
Sparke
wWell
Pye
Nate
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