Simplicity Wartime Fashions A Boon to Home Dressmakers
Wartime sewing trends emphasize practical, easy to make dresses for home dressmakers. Fabrics like rayon crepe and sheer rayons dominate, with front-buttoned shirtwaists and two-piece suits highlighted. Light colored sheers and floral patterns offer cool summer options, while wedding wear features delicate fabrics and simple lines for brides.
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Sy Wesers
Matching Mantilla and Self Fabric Dress Trend
The article describes the summer style trend where designers pair matching outfits to create a coordinated ensemble. It highlights a street length dress in a 3 print featuring a black lace motif on pale green rayon crepe with a matching mantilla as the latest sensation.
Pique in Dresses and Accessories for All Occasions
Designers favor pique to create crisp all white frocks for afternoon wear graduation dresses wedding gowns and evening styles. White frocks gain charm with hand crochet lace trims and petals made of pique at the neckline creating a striking simple yet elegant look. A plain afternoon dress can become a lovely white frock with froths of white or iris that flare from a V neckline.
Pretty House Dresses Take Over Domestic Duties
The article notes many women new to home chores now need practical dresses. It highlights pinafore styles as favorites for young housewives, with ruching and border chiné prints as charming options. Seersucker button-back pinafores are recommended for practical wear.
Secret love notes reveal a couple’s daily plans and plea
A sequence of intimate letters between Peter and Jane, spanning Friday to Saturday, shows lunch dates, theater plans, and changing venues. Peter pursues closeness, promising devotion and a future together while Jane fluctuates between agreeable meetups and candid restraint.
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Peter
Bartiéit's
Bartlett's
Jane
Clean Sprayers Stop Corrosion by Daily Cleaning
Proper maintenance extends sprayer life. Neglect allows corrosive spray residue to damage components. During the active season growers should wash out sprayers each night with clear water to prevent hourly corrosion while idle.
Kathleen Norris Says To Live Is to Change Tires
Kathleen Norris argues that war era strain forces men like Tom Smith to adapt. He resents wives and daughters who join in rationing, factory work, and relief efforts while the home front shifts to meet wartime needs.
Tom Santh And The War Chronicle
Tom Smith resists the idea of war touching his daily life while his wife and daughter bear heavy duties in defense work and hospital wards. They understand the nationwide call to action and believe collective effort will fuel a titanic war effort.
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Tom Santh
Tom Smith
Flash of Mirror Saves Fliers in Jungle
Ten months in unmapped New Guinea jungle ends for three American fliers and an Australian with a mirror flash that guided a rescue. Second Lieuts Eugene Wallace and Marvin Hughes and Pfc Dalee Bordner plus Private John Leslie Stokie survived after their Liberator bomber crashed near Rabaul. Navigator Hamilton Chisholm sparked the rescue by flashing a large mirror toward the plane, which located the crew as they paddled a canoe to reach the rescue.
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Japherd Rabaul
Toads
John Leslie Stokie
Stokie
Hamilton Chisholm Minneapolis
Everett Wood
Trinidad
Colo
Bordner
Enxis C_ ad
Sir
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Hughes
Wallace
Share the Ride Scheme Faces Drop in West
Oakland Calif The Share the Ride scheme in the East San Francisco Bay Area uses auto placards and ride-bunding stations. The Civilian Defense council checked results after finding autos carried about 2.76 persons per car, then for two weeks with the new system the average fell to 1.76. Chief Coordinator John Marr expressed disappointment.
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Civilian Defense Council
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Marr
Dog Seizes Girl’s Dress And Saves Her From Car
ST LOUIS MO Mike an Irish setter is the hero of the neighborhood Three year old Dorene Forslund was playing between the tracks when a street car bore down on her I heard Mike bark and the street car bell clang said Mrs Compton Whose soldier son owns the dog I looked up in time to see Mike seize the child s dress in his teeth and drag her off the track.
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St, Louis
Mike
Dorene Forslund
Two Bandits Strike Liquor Store Twice in Orlando
Gerald Van Scoy, a local liquor store operator in Orlando, recounts two robberies by the same pair. The first heist yielded 205 dollars, the second 75 dollars twelve days later as the bandits returned and saluted him.
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Fla
Gerald van Scoy
Leoy
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