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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
2
Hand crafted crochet styles praised for style acclaim. The piece describes a vest bonnet set, crocheted in hack wool with red white and black accents. Neon flowers embroidered with velvet trim brighten outfits matching to black jersey shirts. Young women crochet bright yarn sashes pockets and tassels as accessories.
Cherie Nicholas reports a surge in braided details shaping spring styles. Dresses, gloves, hats, neckwear, and cuffs feature extensive braiding with matching belts bags and buttons. Expect wide braid borders on pale fabrics and washable braids for ginghams and piques later in summer.
Signs point to drastic changes in hair styling with the pompadour still present but competing with slick styles and classic parts. Variations include buns, curls, and bonnets styled to match new looks, as shown by John Frederics hats and Dutch bonnets with red rosgra in, black embroidery, and pearls.
A fashion note suggests velvet accents to bridge winter and spring. Three piece velvet set of gloves hat and a large bag anchors the look, with a velvet peaked turban and fringe. Wool crepe dress features pleated scroll trims in matching velvet.
A fashion feature describes crafty hats and pinafores for the season. Designers use media pique denim percale gabardine glazed chintz and black sateen with vivid color touches. Sprone and Binefores become play frocks with delicate applique fruits flowers and fairy-tale motifs.
White sequined neckpieces add charm to black frocks, creating a smart accessory trend. Collar and cuff sets feature all over embroidery, with yokes, square and rounded berths, and pockets in solid sequins, marking a chic black and white theme.
Fads and fancies include above elbow black ray gloves painted with sweetheart roses violets and daisies along their length. Novelty jewelry for teenagers features clips and pins of wood plaster and lucite with realism like keep off the grass signs locks and keys and scissor motifs.
Jimmy Graham sits in the Post Exchange writing letters home from a war camp. He recalls his mother’s kitchen and apple butter, notes family military history, and tunes his letters for steady delivery to reassure his worried mother.
Peter Rabbit carefully climbs Paddy the Beaver's roof amid fresh prints by Old Man Coyote. He notes Paddy nearby and puzzles over the strong smell of Paddy, judging the beaver's lair is outside, while Patsy tracks the snow and muses on building a house of his own.
Los Angeles area notes that the Fabulously Rich Petroleum Center near Signal Hill shows a declining output after a historic boom. Geologist A A Carrey recounts how tourists and locals bought lots and investors prospered when oil arrived, with production peaking earlier and then falling as wells dilute with water and gas.
A terse exchange at a USO party escalates over a private outing as one soldier rebukes another, claiming the companion is the reason for his visit while the other retorts that his own reason was exchanged via a slang retort.
An Edinburgh tale describes a small boy in an orphan asylum who swallowed a penny as authorities recount life in Scotland. The article sketches social conditions and local reactions amid a broader account of hardship and daily routines in the capital.
A stray black and white shepherd dog found a home in Pindall Arkansas after faring through a night with a boy named Robert. A neighbor, Edxaer Blythe, 23, located the animal about three miles from home as temperatures hovered in the 30s.
At Camp Abbot Oregon Smoky the Army dog with obscure lineage shows clear preference for feminine service. After an advance Timber Wolf division party staged maneuvers Smoky left to join an engineer battalion quarters nearby. Each morning he stations himself at the yearpack entrance to greet WAACs as they pass en route to duty.
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