Up-to-Minute College Girl Modes Show New Fall Style
Cherie Nicholas reports on re-shoolday shopping tours highlighting college girl fashion. The season features a narrower silhouette with tall straight skirts and broad shoulders, sleeves as the focal novelty, higher necklines, and floor-length dressy wear. Browns and bronzy greens lead color, with velvet gowns, rabbit hair frocks, and brown patent leather footwear completing coordinated looks.
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Lumberjack Coats Decreed For Fall
Fall fashion shifts from tight bellhop jackets to lumber jack coats with looser fit and larger sleeves. Hip length and three quarter coats suit street and sports wear, featuring feather tweed fabrics and embroidered cashmere linings.
Fur-Lined Coats With Velvet Wraps At Preview
Fur lined and fur trimmed cloth coats appear in early showings of winter wraps. They promise warmth without bulk, preferred over full fur for town wear. Fur mainly trims yokes gillets cape collars and shoulders, while the wraps use rich velvet. A cream velvet wrap with sable sleeves stands out.
Lovely Outfits Spoiled By Mismatched Accessories
The piece notes that even a well chosen suit or dress can be ruined by inappropriate accessories such as hats gloves shoes and pocketbooks. It argues accessories must harmonize with the outfit to avoid spoiling the overall look and suggests coordinated touches can refresh a frack.
Chic cuff brims by Cherie Nicholas
Fal millinery collections favor jaunty velvet chapeaux with turned-back cuff brims as a pleasing contrast to cap-fitting berets. Sketched is a black velvet gob hat with a turned-back cuff and a bow, and an ultra raspberry velvet hat trimmed with white grosgrain ribbon and a bow over the right eye.
Waist-Length Wrap Now Featured In This Fall Collections
Fashion notes describe waist-length wraps for fall, a garment that functions as half jacket and half cape, designed to be worn over a cloth frock or coat. The piece emphasizes versatility and layering options for the season.
Old Folk Festival Celebrates Big Quarterly
The Big Quarterly festival in Wilmington Delaware marks 121 years on the last Sunday in August. Thousands of Black celebrants travel from Virginia Delaware Pennsylvania and New Jersey for a religious homecoming that began as a church festival for the AUMP founded by free Black people in 1811. The event grew into a regional reunion with special trains, vendors, and a vivid parade scene on French Street, but there has been a noted decline in recent decades as traditions fade.
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African Union Free Colored Methodist Protestant Church
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Delmarva Peninsula
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New Jersey
Virginia
Delaware
French Street
What is that coin answer from a child
A kindergarten teacher tests the class with a half dollar placed on the desk. A voice from the back row quickly answers tails, showing a sharp, spontaneous pupil response.
Fading religious fervor and courting diversions in daily life
A reflective piece contrasts waning church devotion with modern comforts such as face powder, clothing, buses, and private cars used by pilgrims. It notes the shift of younger Black communities away from practice to worldly outlets and recalls past fondness for Big Quarterly, while listing global cities and a humorous sign about a meat store repurposed as a dress shop.
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