Fashioning the aging figure in Parisian dress design
A discussion on how midlife and aging women navigate Europe and America’s fashion standards. French and American designers adapt silhouettes to flatter changing figures, with emphasis on tunics, one piece gowns, and draped lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth
Paquin
Drecoll
Redférn
Europe
America
Beer
Jenny
Molyneix
Cheruit
Alice
Bernard
Louiseboulanger
Premet
Doeuiliet
Poiret
Lanvin
Jeanne Hallee
Doucet
Patou
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Reader Letter
A reader from Kankakee Illinois recounts how Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound eased her mother’s life after menopause and helped her own weakness. The letter cites relief from nervousness backache and general female ailments and urges others to try the remedy as sold by druggists nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tal Kaleb
Timota
Lydia E
Pinkham
Mra
Harry Couto
Lydia E. Pinkham
Photographic Telescope To Aid Star Movement Studies
A huge thirty six foot long photographic telescope will measure star movements. An expedition at a southern hemisphere site near polar regions will use the third largest tube, a twenty six inch lens camera, and other gear to resolve astronomical problems.
Swamps Reborn as Musk Rat Farming Havens
Musk rat farming grows from pastime to thriving industry in swamp districts of the United States. Captive muskrats become tame and feed themselves on marsh vegetation, turning some breeding swamps into more valuable land than nearby croplands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Unite States
Waisting Disease Questioned by Mrs Podgers
In a Boston Transcript excerpt Mrs Podgers and Mrs Gadsley discuss an unidentified wasting disease and its feared effects. The dialogue reflects concern over embiowpoint and reference to an aunt who supposedly wasted away, illustrating social anxiety over illness and idiosyncratic terms.
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Arena -Be
Henry
Dusty
Felix
al & View
Ummer
Flora McFlimsy
Asas
New York Times
New York
Doan
Utah
H.R. Spencer
West
South St
Payson
Bays
Rmny
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem
Buffalo
Thompson
Troy
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