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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
2
Cherie Nicholas surveys fur trends for winter fashion, noting Persian lamb and other furs dominate the season. She highlights coats, capes, and capeslets in gray, seal, beaver, and caracul, with deep turn back cuts, cuffed sleeves, and bold new silhouettes.
A feature on new housecoat collections highlights floor length options and knee length styles. Padded and quilted varieties appear in plain colors and floral patterns. Bright plaid house robes with belts gain popularity, appealing to college students and professionals alike.
New evening winter wraps appear with a 25-inch wool topper and 3 wool fabric. They feature novelty-shaped pockets with sequins, gold embroidery and jewel-like stones. Hip-depth capes display rich embroidery at each shoulder, highlighting craftsmanship and luxe detailing.
Vogue highlights a cape centric trend with caped suits and dresses featuring cape flares. The tong fur cape debuts as a fashion first and the short fur cape replaces the short fur jacket in many looks.
Fashion notes spotlight buttons as key style elements for spring and summer, emphasizing utilitarian yet ornamental use. Side fastenings from underarm to hemline appear on frocks and suits, with jewel, rhinestone, and plastic buttons shaping dramatic looks. Designers urge bold button choices to add glamour, including buttoned sleeves, tiny jewel buttons, and rosettes for accessories to complete outfits.
Bright feather boas and pearl chokers set a chic tone for spring. Two tone colorways headline new prints while exotic hats glitter with jewel embroidery. Bolero dresses and bolera suits lead the season with felt berets and visor visors. After five gowns in black dominate, with fur bags and satin pieces completing the look.
Kathleen Norris writes that Christmas reveals how Christianity underpins civilization beyond spiritual value. She argues Jesus’ life and teachings foster forgiveness and brotherhood, shaping hospitals, libraries, schools, and laws, and urges renewed focus on love as the guiding law to solve postwar problems.
The piece argues that European civilization rests on Christian ethical foundations shaping hospitals, schools, rights codes, and freedoms. It notes irony in wartime and credits the faith with enduring influence, highlighting justice and freedom as central to Christ’s teachings.
A shortage of male Santa performers drives women to take on Santa duties on street corners and in stores. At 45 to 75 years old, qualifying women attend a Santa Claus school learning lines and how to engage children, while Equity and big retailers seek substitutes for aging actors.
In Los Angeles a claim for probate of First Mate Clement Carlin’s will was filed after a Japanese sub sank a merchant ship in 1944. An oral will naming Carlin’s brother John M. Carlin of Glendale as heir was dictated while crew members were beaten and later placed in a lifeboat.
Mme Aldegon zegeurs a Dutch woman tied to German agents in Maastricht faces arrest after police report she lured Dutch underground workers to capture. She allegedly worked with a Belgian Gestapo agent, gathering names of leaders in concentration camps and extorting large sums with false promises of release.
Washington reports that lend-lease shipments of food in the first nine months of 1943 were lower than in 1942. Beef and veal share fell to eight-tenths of 1 percent of U S families from 1.7 percent in 1942. Milk products rose slightly while eggs fats oils canned fruit and juices and canned fish and vegetables were reduced. Reverse lend-lease to U S forces remained heavy in England Australia and New Zealand.
Washington report notes Sweden is manufacturing and storing goods for future sale after the war. The Swedish wood pulp sector has hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical pulp in storage awaiting resumption of peace time exports, while railway car plants are producing a large order for the Netherlands.
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