Dainty Cape Fashioned for Cool Days
A cape in fawn colored cloth features machine stitched trim, turned edges, and a silk belt. It has a fitted silhouette with tight sleeves and three chiffon epaulets over the shoulders.
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1898
Page
7
Fashion Notes on Stockings and Evening Cape Styles
The piece offers guidance on when to wear embroidered stockings versus plain ones, with tips on fabric matching and slip stitched details. It describes capes in velvet with feathered trims, and evening wear accessories like ruffs, plastrons, and satin reverses, plus stitching and lining considerations.
Breakfast to dinner menu items listed in daily fare
Monday menu shows breakfast with Quaker Oats eggs creamed potatoes corn bread and coffee. Luncheon includes Cold Beef baked potatoes brown bread apple sauce tea. Dinner features Vegetable Soup sirloin steak mashed potatoes potted onions lettuce tapioca pudding and coffee.
Handsome Princesse Gowns Describe Exquisite Drapery and Styles
The piece praises new princesse gowns with drap d ete and Henriettes in fawn gray and Persian brocade. It details a front bodice cut to cling, side slashed, and V shaped brocade insertions. A black drap d ete look omits the insertions and features a long net scarf over the shoulders.
Afternoon Wear Bodice with Green Floral Silk Yoke
A dainty bodice features pale green flowered silk combined with plain silk. It has a tight fitting lining with a plain material yoke, set in plaits, front and back yokes cut without a centre seam, and folds laid on the foundation. The lining hooks down the center while the yoke remains unseamed.
Making Over Dresses and New Trimmed Fashions
The home dressmaker renovates dresses worn two seasons, adds net and lace trims, and converts worn skirts into petticoats. Lace berths plastrons and frillings are sold by the yard, with facing ideas and new ruffles. Shirt waists rise in popularity with varied fabrics, collars, ties, and lace accents, alongside guidance for dainty tea jackets and semi transparent textiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seo
Plaids Take Share in Various Fabrics
Plaids appear across ginghams wool and silk goods with similar designs showing in organdies lawns and delicate tints as well as in the real tartan.
Spring Fashion and Sleep Quality in Early Spring
The piece notes gowns in smooth faced cloths and light wool with fur trim for early spring, warns against waking with unventilated rooms, and stresses fresh air for better rest. It highlights a Neht woolen walking costume with fur trim, silk vest, velvet collar, and a velvet toque with black aigrette. It then lists a Saturday menu and discusses theatre waists with blouse and surplice styles and new headpiece trims.
Daintiness Defined as Youthful Charm and Culture
A discussion defines daintiness as the elusive charm of a young woman earned through culture rather than innate quality. The corsage described uses silk and lace with a silk guimpe, lace center panel, and lace edged cuffs. Sleeves blend lace and silk with a silk shoulder puff.
The Dainty Maidens Habit of Sleep and Style
The article argues that modern women should sleep eight hours daily, noting temperaments vary. It links daintiness to habit, describing hair brushing, clean hands, scented rooms, and perfumes as part of a refined persona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onny
A Useful Cadet Blue Coat With Black Braids
A lightweight coat suited for spring and summer wardrobe. It features a double breasted front with hidden hooks, large oblong buttons on the left, machine stitched edges, and hip pockets. Neckline includes a roll over collar with small revers, and sleeves have three rows of stitching at the wrist.
Brest Tact Shradded Wheat Sugar and Cream
Menu fragment lists wheat and sugar cream items for tea and dinner. Items include wheat cakes toast coffee pudding potatoes mutton roast and vegetables served with cream sauce watercress and French dressing.
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Brest
Cacnaa
Glowing Clan Colors Highlight Very Gay Tartans
A brief fragment notes tartans described as very gay and bright in glowing clan colors, underscoring celebratory textile display within a cultural context.
Wednesday Menu Highlights from Breakfast to Dinner
The day’s meals include Breakfast with Oatmeal Sweat and Cream Oranges Lamb Chops Rolls Coffee Luncheon featuring Cold Mutton Tomato Sauce Bread and Butter Jelly Cake Dinner offers Tomato Soup Roiled Fish Curry of Mutton Potatoes Turnips Celery Salad and Eclairs.
A Woman's Guide to When to Permit Entertainment
The speaker insists a woman should know when to invite amateur musicians to perform and be unselfishly focused on others pleasure. She should avoid self indulgence and remember that flat entertainment can be tiring or dull to all.
Friday Menu At Breakfast Luncheon and Dinner
Friday meals list a breakfast with fruit wheatlet sugar cream poached eggs toast coffee the luncheon features oyster pie brown bread cookies jam chocolate for dinner spinach soup boiled snapper celery sauce boiled orators and parsnips watercress peach pudding and coffee serves as a historic daily menu snapshot.
Sunday menu at Minner Raw Oysters Roast Chicken
Sunday offerings include raw oysters and roast chicken with cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes. Side dishes feature peas celery mayonnaise wafers cheese and orange ice cream.
Dainty Pincushion Craft Described For Needle Buffs
The article details making a five inch emery rushion with strong calico, silk petals forming a flower, and a silk piece colored to resemble a poppy interior. It notes the cushion should keep needles from rust and mentions a vivid contrast between the top silk and the surrounding fabric.
How to Bone a Turkey Steps and Techniques
The guide instructs on boning a turkey starting with skinning along the back and lifting flesh to reach thigh and wing sockets. It covers detaching leg bones, trimming wings, removing the neck and merry bones, freeing the breast bone, and restuffing with force meat before sewing and trussing.
Meat cooking methods and nutritional notes
The text compares beef mutton lamb veal and pork for digestibility and nutrition. It endorses grilling and roasting as best methods and explains boiled meat loses juices while roasting preserves nutrition. Stewing is praised as economical yielding tender nutritious meat.
New Spring Coats Offer Varied Styles for All Figures
The article describes spring coats with close fitting backs and loose box fronts or open with revers turned back, satin fronts braided in straight rows, strapped or plain seams, and velvet details. It notes linings as liberty satin and highlights jaunty fashion.
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