Velvet Fashion Craze Presses Velvet Into Wardrobe
Velvet and velveteen dominate the season as fashion centers report a surge in velvet outfits for suits boots hats and trimmings. Two toned velvets blue and black and rich blue purples lead the palette while ostrich feathers and black velvet accents drive high prices. Designers showcase gowns with lace over satin and velvet trains reflecting a wealthier feminine silhouette for the upcoming cycle.
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Icturers
Paris
The Hobble Skirt and Fashion's Slippery Future
A reflective piece on the hobble skirt facing division between supporters and critics. It predicts the style will fade or transform, surveys potential successors like crinolines or sweeping trains, and imagines the social and practical hurdles of future fashions.
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Mrs. Brown
Agag
Desert blooms and hardy seeds on the camping walk
A fragmented note suggests seeds for mountaineering trips and walks. It mentions desert plantings, violets, poppies, cornflowers, foxglove, and marigold as hardy varieties. The text hints at seasonal planting, railway scans, and future arrivals without a clear event or date.
Woman's Conscience by Dorothy Dix exposes tainted money use
Dorothy Dix argues that many good women ignore the source of money they enjoy, accepting funds earned through exploitation, child labor, and vice. She urges women to demand clean money and challenge the social systems enabling corruption, warning that accepting tainted wealth implicates them as accomplices.
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Judas Iscariot
Craft a linen embossed photo book for wall art
Advice on making a compact picture book from embossed linen in purple shade to display paintings without crowding walls. Leaves cut larger than the artwork, covers of wool or leather, and simple eyelets with ribbon binding. Paste each image to the leaf center using library paste for easy additions.
Energy Must Go With Talent In Interior Decorating
A successful interior decorator stresses energy and perseverance alongside talent. She explains the creative process from paper sketches to selecting materials, detailing room plans, pillow choices, and color harmony. She notes many rooms are challenging yet rewarding with careful planning and matching hues.
Some Mistakes Mothers Make As by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox discusses mother mania centering on excessive focus on children. She argues that devoted mothers neglect marriage, anger husbands, and harm family balance. The piece urges balanced attention to wifehood and motherhood with occasional absence for harmony.
Fads of Fashion Show Silk, Hats, and Trims
The article surveys fall fashion trends with silk fabrics including dark brown messaline and taffeta colors, and highlights outing hats in beaver and velvety textures. It notes wood-like fabrics for suits, plaited Dutch collars, numerous lace and embroidery patterns, smaller coiffures, shawl collars, light Chantilly nets, and a shift toward large flat hats with low crowns. Turndown child’s hats and inverted dish shapes remain popular, as does the sailor collar on coats and blouses.
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Paris
Muffs and fur fashion grow larger in display
The article notes oversized muff fashions returning, with vast pockets and capacious designs. Fur collarettes and capes attract interest, as shop windows showcase prominent early 20th century fur items like large muffs and dainty collars.
Experience Party Recalls Summer Tales In Dinner Hour
Invitations sent by telephone set a lively scene as guests share five minute summer incidents. Attendees on vacation traded stories while a friend offered a twenty minute reading of unpublished tales. Foreign scenes on place cards complemented a menu of pelicious sandwiches coffee olives nuts and bonbons.
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Ivere
Why Dresses Fade From Excessive Iron Heat
The piece warns that fading often results from ironing too hot and from washing. Delicate colors fade more from heat than from washing, worse than strong sun. Use even dampness and a iron just hot enough to smooth wrinkles with steady pressure to prevent fading.
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Mt Gores
Ox Tail Soups And Pottage From A Historic Menu
An old kitchen recipe outlines ox tail soup with browned tails, root vegetables, mushrooms, and mushroom catsup, simmered four hours, then assembled with pastry crust. It includes separate dishes for potato cones, sago pudding, and a fruit sauce to accompany rice balls, with detailed steps and ingredients.
Autumn Styles in Stores Inspire Bold Millinery Trends
Milady previews autumn fashion with wide brim hats and plumes, beaded roses, fur trims, and Persian and Egyptian touches. American makers mimic foreign designs in coats, turbans, and motor bonnets, while fabrics range from tweeds to broadcloths, veiled in draped silhouettes, hobble skirts, and velvet.
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Maker
Persia
Fragmented humor snippets from an old fishing tale and remarks
A patchwork of quips about a monstrous fish, a surgeon's fee of 2500 dollars, a trust magnate anxious over farmer prosperity, and a judge’s remark on assimilation. The jests touch on politics, entertainment, and etiquette with dated tone and voices.
Lavender bedroom with lavender curtains and white furniture
A lavender themed bedroom features gray lavender walls, plain lavender cotton curtains, wide fabric, and two sides of a window cut from one length. It includes a white enamel chest of drawers a white straight chair a simple mirror and a wicker armchair with lavender accents.
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