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Our Social Letter from Portonia on fashion and politics
A lively social letter notes fashions in Paris A s are arriving with straight arms and flared skirts while discussing wartime peace optimism. It praises Lady Galway as an eloquent Governor’s Wife and mocks politicians and suffragettes, then comments on nonchalant fashion trends and noxious weeds acts. Doris Egerton Jones returns from Honolulu with a new book and Rex Callahan engagement. advice warns against a peasant dress and praises knitting as war effort symbolism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ozz Heights
Portonia
Navor Isaacs
Asquith
Strickland
Lady Galway
M.P
Partonia
Hindenburg
London
Adela Pankhurst
Defence Department
Annie Kenny
Billy Hughes
England
Women Writers’ Club
So-and-So
Adelaide
Doris Egerton Jones
Honolulu
Rex Callahan
Sydney
Miss Ritto
Kitto
Clevah
Reid
Ramsay Street
Haberfield
Admiral Beatty