Beadwork and Lace Fashion for Babies and Accessories
The article surveys lace and beadwork trends in Paris fashion influencing baby garments and women’s accessories. It notes handmade laces, filet and Valenciennes inserts, and embroidered motifs on bodices and dresses. It also covers beadwork in bags, belts, and jewelry, with fashionable uses of paillettes and faux gemstones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Point de Pbreges
Valenciennes
Point de Paris
Valencienses
Point de Paris Insertion
Enjoyable Birthday Parties for the Young Folks
An article by Eleanor B. Clapp outlines a child’s birthday party plan with a Maypole cake centerpiece, ten dancing dolls, and a daisy chain table, giving step by step decoration ideas. It advises choosing a bright color scheme, using white daisies and grasses, and presenting each guest with a Maypole doll keepsake and cake slice. It offers practical tips on managing weather, table settings, napkins, and party favors including candy baskets and prune turtles as playful favors.
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Listaner
Grandma
Hapa
Timothy
Dresee
California
Curtain Lining Advice for Rooms with Wood Shutters
The article warns against using curtains with nets too thin to mount over natural wood shutters and suggests using sheer muslin or silk as lining. It recommends hanging from the same pole and using a delicate tint near white to suit certain rooms.
Energetic Woman Runs Multiple Lodging Houses in City
A compact feature profiles a resourceful woman who buys and operates four lodging houses in New York, catering to travelers and locals with services beyond simple rooms. She rents by instalment, fills spaces with transients, and offers personalized guides and theater outings, charging accordingly.
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el Near
Brown
Jewelry gifts for graduates from a young girl's perspective
A vintage shopping guide outlines dainty trinkets for graduate gifts. It praises belt pins squarely avoiding loose ends, charm novelties for athletic girls, gold safety pins, plain or frosted bands, and the La Valliere style with amethyst. It highlights garnets, antique dog collars, versatile gate-top bracelets, serpent chains, amethyst pendants, and flower shirtwaist pins as stylish options. It also notes earrings as less favored, preferred pearls, hair ornaments like barrette shapes, tortoise shell combs, and gold bead or monogrammed lockets as tidy keepsakes.
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Emelyn L. Coolidge
Barnes & Co
Bendas
Biwckles
Eleanor B. Clapp
A. & Barner & Co
Cynthia Westover Alden
A. 8
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