Mourning dresses reflect period tone with tailored details
The article outlines mourning dress ideas emphasizing simplicity and modesty. It describes cashmere and voile fabrics, crepe trims, taffeta bands, and sleeve shapes, with several outfits including a widow’s dress, a black cheviot suit, and a coat dress. Details cover collars, waistlines, cuffs, and hat accents while noting practical, refined styles for varying ages and occasions.
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Paris Fashion Notes on Fall Styles and Embellishments
Paris fashion notes describe autumn silhouettes with narrow skirts, wide tucks, and decorative plastrons. Beads on voile and marquisette mimic embroidery, Poiret influences, oriental motifs, and new hats with tall bell crowns. Empire lines return, striped rough fabrics trim with braid, khaki riding wear gains chic status, and an afternoon gown in pomegranate voile features embroidery and a Japanese bow.
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Extended yoke gowns shape fashion with bold contrasts
The article describes the extended yoke as a seasonal fashion feature where the yoke extends beyond the shoulder line, often in contrasting materials or trims. It highlights ensembles in deep rose and black satin, various sleeve and yoke treatments, and notes Parisian adoption and the need for broad shoulders and fullness to balance the look.
Fashionable Coiffure Trends Shift Toward Youthful Volume
The article notes a move from stiff hair to youthful, fluffy looks with many curls and tiered builds. Turbans fade while coronet braids rise higher, short fringes appear, and Babylike ringlets become popular among Parisian circles.
Stocks and Collars in Early 20th Century Fashion
The article describes net stocks in black and white with tucks, Persian mull edging, tallored stocks with lace, large shoulder collars in hand embroidered batiste or maline, jabots in pleated styles, and embroidered linen collars. It notes eyelct openwork varieties and raised lines formed by stitched cords.
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Russell
Fall fashion buttons list and designs in multiple materials
The article catalogs fall fashion buttons in white, black, mother of pearl and dyed hues. Large sizes with eighteen and twenty line lengths appear. Descriptions cover demigrobe and cup shapes, false eyes, dyed two tones, metal passementerie effects, shell patterns, animal motifs, porcelain pieces, and novelty pendant button imitations.
Sleeve styles in dresses and coats described
The text outlines sleeve varieties for garments including bishop sleeves and fullness above the elbow, regulation shirtwaist sleeves, peasant and raglan in wraps, regulation coat sleeves for street wear, three-quarter sleeves in costumes, elbow length or shorter in gowns, and full length in tailor-made dresses.
New Underwear Styles Narrow Skirts And Drawers
The piece describes new underwear designs including narrowed skirts on a yoke top with lace trimmed legs and side openings edged with wire lace and ribbon closures. Some feature knickerbocker bands below the knee with a ruffle or tucked detailing to suit empire gowns.
Lace Headpiece Adds Delicate Frill to Large Hats
The interior lace frill, about two inches wide, drapes softly over the hair at the crown of a broad hat. Black white or metallic lace blends with tulle, rosebuds and small flowers, improving facial features. Origin likely from Parisian lace turbans. praised as a novel feature at a great hat exhibition.
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Fur adorned footwear tops autumn fashion trend
The article describes fur trimmed boots and fur trimmed garments dominating this season. It notes fur used as collars or welting, with black short haired fur common. The piece calls fur adorned shoes the latest fad in footwear.
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