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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
6
A description of new ribbon designs by Lue of New York for hostess use at summer events. Four white and green forms, including rosettes, utilize narrow and wide ribbons with foliage accents like smilax. The piece notes skilled women adopting ribbon work as a profitable craft, reshaping floral decoration in tables and drawing rooms.
A young girl wore a dark regulation blue serge suit that featured a plain skirt and a novel jacket with a deep sailor collar. The collar showed natural colored ponge edges, coral line trimming, and black braid with large side buttons, complemented by long sleeves with turnback cuffs.
Ropes of tinleat pearls with tasselled ends have become a lasting fashion this season. A revival of using tinleat pearls in jewelry follows a demand for threaded bracelets and beadlike ornaments. The style is light and graceful and popular with young women. Annie Douglas Graham, Jay Gould's fiancée, owns several tinleat pearl pieces for hair, throat, wrist and corsage in her wedding ensemble.
Velvet wrist bags shown by smart women in Nice astonish with their immense size. The bags, flat and richly trimmed with velvet and Gothic border, are carried on chains of slender cut steel and appear more ornamental than practical while seated in carriages.
The guide advises adding a tablespoonful of starch to two gallons of water for linen articles to iron with stiffness. Iron on the wrong side first and wash the starch vessel in hot suds. Use old underwear with buttons to protect fingers from bruises.
A fashion description for a blouse crafted from fine fabrics. Lace trims the yoke and is finished with a gathered material, two shoulder tucks, and small puff sleeves edged in lace. Requires material 1% yard 42 inches wide and % yard silk 22 inches wide, yard lace, and a dozen buttons.
A ceretone covered octagonal collar box features a groove in a side flap to hold ties. Tapestry bags shown include models for slippers fans or opera glasses with a three inch tapestry strip forming sides and bottom. A cretonne darning bag adds external pockets and a needle cane, while a decorative Chinese lantern bag offers a unique design.
Retailers display black overseam kid gloves with white stitching and welts as an old novelty returns. Silk gloves gain prominence while demand for allks grows earlier than usual, with black and white leather items remaining dominant in sales.
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