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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1942
Page
3
Fashion notes from Chicago spring shows emphasize a wartime look featuring long torso silhouettes and box pleats. Highlights include navy spun rayon coats with bold prints, bolero jackets with eyelet embroidery, and slim wrap skirts plus harem drapes.
The coming vogue favors allover embroidery on wool or rayon and cotton fabrics that resemble wool. Simple wool frocks will be finished with a hem flounce to add a feminine note. Flounces appear in smart dress collections, including a beige wool gown with green embroidered diamond dots and a molded waist teamed with a belt.
A Chicago preview of spring and summer styles draws 18 000 buyers from 17 states. Designers showcase chambrays calicoes and denims for women and children while war demands shape fashion. Practicality dominates dresses garden wear work uniforms and foundation garments with fastenings replacing hooks and eyes as rubber shortages persist. The hostess coat remains the lone luxury despite the trend toward utility.
A fashion note describes matching hats to blouses with frilly neckwear. Straw or felt hats may be outlined with organdy frills echoing jabots, a highlighted neckwear item of the season.
In a Spring Summer show, women in the hosiery and apparel field showcased trousered uniforms made from denim and chambray with tight cuffs designed as accident prevention measures. The outfits emphasized both service and adornment roles for women in the industry.
A wide range of film and radio figures contribute to national crisis relief. Dorothy Lamour tops bands, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby volunteer time, and Fred Waring marshals USO entertainment for troops around New York City.
Nine designs feature Dutch themes with appliqué costumes and wooden shoes. Gretchen rates towels for Monday Wednesday and Friday while Hans handles Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Sunday shows both motifs on pan holders. Transfer 29403 priced at 15 cents. Send order to:
A quotation from Stevenson outlines a man’s duty to be honest and kind, earn modestly, save, support family, renounce as needed, avoid bitterness, keep a few true friends, and stay true to himself under strict conditions.
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