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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1922
Page
10
News For Women shows playful vignettes on youth and aging. A grandmother’s fashion choice delights a grandchild while a “Very Modern Girl” learns from an elderly lady about graceful aging and usefulness. The Practical Lady helps a truck driver with ash disposal, turning a cluttered moment into a small triumph.
Fashion notes celebrate a 1922 lounging robe dubbed the cape style. The piece blends wrap and boudoir elements, with a deep collar, fringe, and long capes. accessories include ribbons and lace headbands. The trend pairs elegance with comfort, shifting from street to intimate wear.
A historical note on office workers, both men and women, spending portions of the day in time consuming rituals. Women reportedly engage in extended grooming and prep periods before and after meals, while men allocate short handwashing and smoking breaks. Overall time frittering appears similar between genders.
The piece notes that rainbow colored or white, tan, or gray embroidered fabrics create fresh looks for old satins. Fishnet bece appears in spring frocks, with heavy cotton thread detailing. Lace and filet patterns decorate table covers and reams, with blue, yellow, red, and brown hues. Chinese and landscape motifs appear occasionally among designs.
A collage of fruit desserts and salads describes orange based creams, fritter batters, gelatin molds, and laced dressings. It covers orange banana pineapple walnut pops, French dressing, cocoanut decorations, marshmallows, and whipped cream, plus baked apples and fried banana batters with sugar.
A fashion note describes new frocks with gray and red shades, homespun wool scarfs in checks, fringed ends, and belts with scalloped edges. Irish lace decorates white summer dresses, with overdresses and tunics showing bold lace details and dramatic sleeve and shoulder accents.
A fragment discusses women in various roles and achievements. It mentions a French weight boxing champion Jeanne Le Mar challenging rivals at 128 pounds and notes a general rise of active women. The text references people like Russo and W. L. George in a fragmented historical context.
Margaret Culkin Banning argues modern American women are overprotected, self conscious, and overindulged by leisure and media. She cites Freud, film, and theater as amplifying the spotlight, warns of children growing up self centered, and urges firmer standards and less casual regard for domestic life.
American relief workers describe Armenian girls rescued from Arab harems. They recount eating from a shared dish without utensils, a bride stepping over a sheep on the doorstep, and other rituals. The account praises rescue as a return to civilization and notes variations by region and time.
A guide to hat trimming urges discretion and skill, noting that home work can work with a knack and seasonal sense. It covers fabrics like haircloth dress cloth and candy cloth, describes trims such as burnt ostrich fancies and Roose feather accents, and warns against overtrimming while praising ribbon and small embellishments.
A fragment describes evening slippers made entirely of feathers in diverse colors. Feathers are smooth breast plumes clinging softly to the curves of the foot, presenting a delicate, decorative footwear novelty.
The piece discusses politeness and ritual of apologies, noting how habitual and perfunctory it can feel. It contrasts well bred behavior with intrusive social niceties and mentions the ease with which strangers receive insincere regrets.
Mrs Izetta Brown of Kingwood West Virginia leads a campaign by farm women to organize farm clubs and counteract demeaning publicity. They seek optimism not pity, urging local action from water pipes in schools to improving living conditions and keeping children on the farm through collective effort and education.
Notes describe plain colors veed for targets with a bit of white. Bright freon or bright yellow jackets are veed with white wand trimming. Some new frocks have minimal trim, with flowers of material around the hem instead of a gird.
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