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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1943
Page
2
Cherie Nicholas Luce highlights versatile cotton fashion from chic chambrays to seersuckers and chintzes. The piece describes outfits including a chambray skirt with ribbon edging, a white peasant blouse, and bareback dresses revived for modern practicality. It notes stain resistance and adaptable silhouettes for work, garden, or social occasions.
A fashion blurb touts a dark linen-textured spun rayon outfit with eyelet pique details. It highlights conservation-minded fabric, stabilized fibers, seam strength, non shrinkage, stretch, and color fastness to hand washing. An accompanying navy hat completes the high fashion look for summer.
Wartime hats emphasize a single base shape with multiple trims. Sally Victor promotes a versatile crown with six or more trimming options. Features include double-ruffle brims, Stew lace mesh slip-on designs, sequin beads, and a feather sweep cap that adapts to events and outfits.
The article highlights fringe trimming as a rising fashion across afternoon and evening wear. It notes loop yarn and self fabric cord fringes, suede fringe on leather jackets, hats, and accessories, plus upholstery tinge on cotton frocks and straw or wood fringe hats.
Mexican influenced items feature gay Mexican straw hats Mexican plaid straw bags and the Mexican peasant blouse in white cotton reflecting color and motif trends.
Fashion advice urges buying interchangeable wardrobe pieces to mix and match. The piece discusses coordinated outfits using gingham separates, such as dirndl skirts, shirts, pinafores, and boleros, plus beaded blouses, jackets, and matching hats and accessories to create versatile, budget-smart summer ensembles.
Kathleen Norris argues that planners who fix their finances now will greet postwar years with confidence. She notes wartime inflation and shifts in employment as men return and youth enter, urging thrift, readiness, and practical action to ease the transition to a prosperous, democratic postwar America.
The latest yellow and black prints captivate fashion as best dressed women choose this pattern for smart summer frocks. Black on yellow stands out in print mode with border rayon gown accents and sleeves repeating large motifs. A plain yellow trim blouse accompanies the look, and the 2 black on yellow rayon shanting print adds style prestige.
Wild grape becomes a new color for fail while Russian coronet millinery is highlighted as a trend. Fringe crepe dresses are ready to wear with pastel emphasis in costume jewelry. Print handbags feature polished wood frames. tiny pastel feather hats pair with sheer black or print track. Waffle-weave pique toppers claim chic status on summer wraps, and collarless necklines set off clips chokers jabots scarves and bows.
Ex Norris urges thrift during wartime readjustment and planning for old age. The message emphasizes avoiding extravagance despite higher earnings and calls on citizens to prepare to aid soldiers returning home. The piece includes a letter from a family pooling efforts to gift three farms when three sons return from service.
In a coast town, Kate Mervin details wartime sacrifices to avoid burdening three sons in uniform. The family shifted from debt to prudent living, renting part of their home to a sister, and converting their home for three apartments. They bought three small farms at about 12,900 each, with annual payments around 3,600, planning to present the farms to returning sons. They aim to live simply until sons come home, with tenants upstairs and savings to avoid future dependence.
Max Justes, a tall Frenchman who left New York in 1940 to aid France, survived a reported death near Sedan and a Nazi breakthrough. Now living in New York, he declares he is headed back to the front to face the Germans again, awaiting release by his draft board to rejoin the French army. His friends recall the shocking revival and his earlier life running a travel bureau and perfume company.
MILWAUKEE A new detector device for rails speeds up wartime freight safety. Under William Brazius, the Association of American Railroads engineering department perfected a two unit detector car built at Milwaukee road shops. It travels up to 45 miles per hour energizing rails and using magnetic pickups to reveal hidden or surface flaws before they cause wrecks.
SAN DIEGO two sailors leaped into a Malayan sun bear pit at the city zoo to save 13 year old Joyce Bow lett who had climbed over a fence and entered the enclosure. W B Fields and Leon Chriskrutz repelled the bears with clubs and used a water hose to subdue them after fighting off three bears. The girl sustained severe claw and bite injuries but was rescued.
A 1%-year-old extortionist Roger Barker received a five year prison sentence and five year probation in Bollywood California for threatening letters to notable figures Bette Davis Rosalind Russell Mickey Rooney Deanna Durbin and former Governor Culbert Olson with no payments received.
Garaging after a long day, Safino Floravanti, a taxi driver, found a watch and 17 500 in cash and bonds in his cab meter and promptly surrendered the valuables to the Buenos Aires police station.
Juke KP duty at the Pocatello Idaho air base is described as not 30 bad with two new juke boxes in the kitchen.
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