Fashion Notes on Late Spring Dress and Bonnets
A lively sketch of new fashion in pale pink russet veils, wide lace-trimmed strings, black veils, French nets under chins, and stylish bonnets with slender long strings. Describes fabrics, trims, and silhouettes, from embroidered lace to pale yellows and pinks, with accessories, jackets, capes, and decorative touches for spring wardrobes.
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Eerie
Lack Rwes
Cine Wick
Rees
Coerhetts
Duchess of Deenes
Eames
Lund
Jet Crtemay
Daniel Shovel
Hera Lee
Ranatag
Paper Wedding Gifts and Decor From Everyday Materials
A bride’s paper wedding features home crafted decor and gifts. Guests wear bouquets of paper flowers and ladies carry crocheted paper baskets. Room is adorned with white crepe and paper shades, tables set with pasteboard plates, and small painted gift keepsakes. A list of inexpensive paper gifts includes candle shades, crafts, bookmarks, engagement tablets, and menus for the wedding party.
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Yale
Bokmarka
Rustic craft and kitchen tips from a vintage manual
A collage of household hints and sewing notes describes burning odors with ground coffee, crocheted cushion covers, and wearing apparel. It also outlines nut bar preparation using English walnuts or pecans, sugar, water, and tartar, with steps for glazing and cooling.
Selecting Hat Colors and Brim Linings for Men
The text discusses choosing hat colors and headgear tints. It notes pale complexions suit light grays and tans, with yellowish tinges. if a shade is too bright, the brim should be velvet lined in a darker color to improve appearance.
A Word About Gloves Tans Are the Favorite Tint Bet There
The note discusses preferred glove tans, suggesting tans as a favored tint choice. It mentions opinions on color preference and possible fashion context without detailing specific events or dates.
Fashions and Corsets Then and Now in Tea Jackets
A column discussing fashion restraint and corsetry, noting waist measurements for a well built woman, critiques on stays and the shift to tea jackets. It cites Sarah Grand on moral weight, Promch tea gowns, and discusses elastic perforated stays as modern undergarment options, warning that cheap versions are poor value.
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Reslin
Sarah Grand
Tea Jacket Fashions and Culinary Note Stewed Kidney
Tea jacket styles vary from moire striped to black ribbed moire with lace trims and jeweled fastenings, highlighting creased fabrics and elaborate sleeves. A noted breakfast dish, stewed kidney, describes slow cooking and preparatory steps to remove strong taste, emphasizing prior soaking and repeated water changes.
The Left Hand In Piano Forte Expression Analysis
An article discusses the neglected role of the left hand in pianoforte playing. It argues the left hand often underplays while the right hand dominates, stressing balanced phrasing, tone, and expressiveness through careful use of dynamics and articulation across both hands.
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Recurt
Chopin
Sean
Delicate blue Invalid Wrap and Home Aid Tips
A guide describes a convalescent wrap made from blue flannel with ribbon ties and feather stitching, plus finishing touches like crocheted edging. It notes the garment molds to the sick body and provides sewing details and color options. Additional kitchen and care tips cover icing, vegetables, mint candies, burns, and preserving table flavor.
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Yaselina
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Colter
Mare Wait
Nightingale
Ice
White City
William H. Jackson
Chiago
Stanley H. Wood
India
Daily Courier
Plaiafield
N. J
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