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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1926
Page
7
A fashion writer notes trimming as a key style factor in sports costumes apart from the plain tennis and other strenuous wear. Designers diversify trims with embroidery, piping, braid, and monograms on jerseys, frocks, and jumpers while preserving tailored silhouettes.
The article discusses taffeta use in gowns noting crepe and chiffon successes and advising careful handling to create depth and sheen. It warns large women risk looking larger if taffeta folds and fullness are not expertly crafted.
A fashion writer recounts a party where a woman artist showcases how hat lines transform appearance. Hats with the right brim and crown shape soften features and define style. With many shapes available, women can choose hats that suit their face and avoid uniform trends.
A stylish plaid taffeta dress is shown featuring a tight fitting waist and full skirt over the hips. It has a collar cuffs trim in solid color, long sleeves and a medium high neck, completing a seasonable wardrobe option.
Scarfs span silk to chiffon for all outfits from morning tailleur to evening dress. Gallo giglio style narrow ties suit uppers while sport scarfs run chiffon to heavy printed silk. Chiffon adds volume and sun protection, with white backgrounds and pastel decorations echoing summer gardens and motion in style.
A design overview notes fabrics reflect last year s trends with plain colors favored and several pattern types in use. Figured goods fall into floral conventionalized drawings modern cubist designs and small confeitti patterns with tiny geometrics, checks, and polka dots in high demand among chic wearers. Ombre silks and crepes appear with stripes and printed borders, while patterns on chiffons and voices are set in vivid colors against tinted grounds.
The French hive cloth ensemble reappears in Parisian style with a navy wool full length coat belted at the back and notched collar. A sleeveless front frock simulates a vest, extending into a belt, paired with a masculine gray striped silk shirt and a skirt hem turned like a trouser cuff for a virile feminine effect.
Lanvin crafts a delicate white taffeta dress for a slender youth. The bodice features a plain corsage with thin straps and a ribbon starting at the decollete neck, edged by a belt with roses and flowing ribbons down the front.
A New York Times style authority notes restrained modern American tailoring as the season’s centerpiece. European influence blends with American refinement, favoring the classic tailored suit over one-piece frocks, with crepes silks and wraps shaping the evolving ensemble for American women.
Fashion notes upend French dominance as American makers lead with tailored suits and two piece outfits. Woolens and worsteds from American sources appear in Paris designs, inspiring street wear, wraps, and dresses.
The season showcases kasha wool crepe tweed rep covert and frisca as the rage with jumper suits skirts and tunics. Rich models in navy blue gray and yellow feature diagonal worsted weaves and military box coats with embroidered edges.
A 1926 Kitchen Cabinet piece extols fresh asparagus and economical cooking. It warns against wasting the cooking water, offers steaming and coffeepot methods, and shares recipes for peppers stuffed with asparagus sorrel soup and custards. It notes custard tips and various dessert ideas.
A new style of V shaped heel reinforcements appears in chiffon stockings creating a molded ankle line. The double point heel forms a V at the base, extends upward without covering the ankle, and flatters both slim and fleshy ankles in pastel and street wear colors.
Decorated garters appear with bright colors matching dresses. Some feature crepe de chine flower cutouts, while others show crystal fringes around the band. The DPurtst ende avoids knee garters and sticks to above the knee styles.
New editions of the jumper frock feature flint crepe fabric and are entirely handmade with decorations of tiny bands suggested together.
A record states Sir Wiliam Collingborne was executed in 1454 for manufacturing a pan bearing Richard I’s arms without the white boar. The king’s ministers proclaimed Mughiuod under the law.
Fragmentary note describes burnt utensils and continuing water contamination after boiling. It mentions care with handling, though text is unclear about dates or places.
A Worcester Post item urges honesty in transactions and warns against delaying gas payments while securing a car loan. The brief notes the warning to avoid conflict and protect buyers.
A brief Urbana Democrat quip describes a small creature aspiring to fly yet unable to perch on a barbed wire fence, using sharp metaphor to critique limits.
In Poland a majority of structures boast thatched roofs, with about four-fifths of buildings featuring this traditional roofing. The detail highlights enduring rural architectural practice across the country.
An 61 year cycle superstition labels twenty year old Japanese girls as unsuitable wives. Many pursue work to avoid spinsterhood while some families forbid marriage, causing fear and self harm. A society aims to help members choose wives without parental interference.
At eighty six Olive Tobey of hot Maine enjoys outdoor sports more than younger relatives. She and her daughter and granddaughters coast on a double runner sled, a pastime she favors over the younger group. The Boston Globe notes her gusto and finds echoes about boldness in aging.
Dorothy five and Sally three rushed home to tell their grandparents a horse rode down the street completely naked save for its skin and tail. The fear-stricken sisters described it as a horse without a rider or harness.
Advertisement touts a refined woman using Cuticura Soap and hot water to cleanse pores and Cuticura Talcum powder for clear sweet healthy skin. The copy frames fragrance as a mark of distinction and notes the routine as essential.
A Paris designer sent a coatless sweater to an American customer due to a mistake. The missing collar was added later, creating a distinctive look. The buyer was pleased with the outcome and the fashion to craft distinctively bold verve arose.
A speaker explains why she married her boss after finding him unbearable as a supervisor. The decision was driven by constant friction at work and no workable degree of harmony.
A group of shipping experts fish distributors and officials from the Atlantic experimental station for fisheries outline a rapid freezing method to preserve seafood. The main idea is to chill foods quickly rather than slowly using a very cold brine circulation to rapidly cool wrapped fish during processing. The method aims to extend shelf life while maintaining quality comparable to fresh catch.
A speeding quixotic motorist faced a justice of the peace after a tense hearing. The defendant defended conduct before the court, with questions about prior appearances, while the squire pressed for seriousness and compliance.
A fragmented report describes a dramatic sequence where a woman faced peril and silence as thieves pursued her amid a nascent industry repurposing old tires into shoe production near Tlawali.
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