Cottons For A Simple Yet Glamorous Summer Bride
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas touts cotton fabrics for brides and attendants, proposing white gowns with varied textures like nets, organdies, and eyelets. Describes short lace gloves, pearl headpieces, and bouquets, plus color accents in velvet ribbons and shadow-print bridesmaids’ dresses to create elegant, economical options.
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Garth
Bytlares
Princess i
Ines
Ats
Sexspaper Taten
Mexican Influences Style Gown With Multicolor Border Print
A dress features a border print in multistripe poplin with an airy gathered top and new sleeves. The outfit is complemented by a many-strand necklace whose colors echo the dress stripes, reflecting a Mexican-influenced styling.
Flattery of Large Hats in Bright Spring Colors
The piece describes large spring hats and brimmed models resembling cart wheels. They are flattering and easy to wear, available in bright colors and white, alongside summer classics in pale brown beige and natural tones.
Roses Bloom in Fashion Garden This Season
Roses dominate the fashion scene this season with large white blossoms trimming hats and waistlines. The rose theme appears on handkerchiefs and on fabrics in silk, rayon, or cotton, with roses used in handbags and prints throughout outfits.
Coolie Coats Capture Fashion Trend At High School Event
The article notes coolie coats dominate the crowd with youthful appeal and easy slip on over summer outfits. It highlights collarless designs in darling colors such as coral blue pink lilac and green plus white or ice blue satin wraps for evenings.
Linen Hats and Bags in Luscious Pastel Show
A summer display features hats and bags in pastel shades. Apple blossom pink sky blue pale yellow and mint green with chalk whites highlight a simple well fitted collection. Bags offer ample space for extras and accessories.
Kidskin Shoes Enter High Style Picture
Readers are told kidskin shoes epitomize comfort and fashion for women and girls. Styles range from pumps to sandals in black and white, including open toe and open heel slides, with soft flexible kid leather promising modern comfort for the 1944 season.
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Cherie Nicholas
Tiered Skirt Fashioning a New Style Surge
A new tiered skirt technique gains prominence in fashion headlines with gold toned fabric, tiered skin finish, selicord trim, and loop detailing. The ensemble highlights bolero blouse accents through eyelet embroidery and dangling motifs, signaling a bold look for upcoming collections.
Fashion notes on summer trends and accessories
Style notes describe berets worn at angles and popular bicycle headbands. Demand rises for white gloves, small handbags, fichu necklines, and tiny black sheer trims. Black faille suits with pink accessories and wide brim straw hats with minimal trim are highlighted alongside bolero suits in dark patterned prints.
Kathleen Norris Warns Against Advice in Marital Rifts
A Los Angeles woman writes Kathleen Norris about how outside counsel helped end a seven year marriage. She recalls how money clashes and a meddling confidante named Vera pushed her to divorce mental cruelty, resulting in lasting unhappiness for herself and her children. The ex-husband later remarried and has a daughter.
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Amy
Los Angeles
Woman's Divorce Triggered by Aged Friend's Critique
Miss Norris recounts how a meddling older woman, a family friend, derailed a Young wife’s home through constant criticism of the husband and urging divorce. A financial downturn and drink then led to separation on grounds of mental cruelty, with the wife lamenting lost happiness and harm to her children.
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Miss Norris
Work and Happiness Ahead for You in Wartime Service
A wartime guidance note urges personal renewal through work and service. It encourages embracing home-front duties, war production, Red Cross work, Scouting, community efforts, and service to others while cautioning that marriage is a private matter and outside advice can trouble it.
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Marjorie
Red Cross
Women Improve Factories Postwar Benefits Charted
Women in war plants promote better lighting and heating, sanitary and pleasant surroundings, improved housekeeping, greater safety, and easier material handling, with these by products expected to carry over into postwar industrial plants per the National Metal Trades Association.
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National Metal Trades Association
Runaway Horse Throws Child From Baby Carriage
A horse bolted down a Brooklyn street, toppled a curb, and crashed into a carriage where 11 month old Ulman slept. Passersby freed the infant who was unhurt. The mother, seven other women, and the horse owner fainted.
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Babe
New York
Brooklyn Street
Jap Spy Methods Made Public Reveals Argentine Warning
Buenos Aires announced that most Axis espionage was stamped out and detailed how a Japanese spy ring, led by Shezo Murai, used coded letters in novels to send data to Tokyo. After war began, all Japanese in Argentina were ordered to gather US activity for transmission via cable facilities. The Becker network, led by Juan Sigride Becker, trained and aided German groups in Argentina, with arrests reported and Becker at large.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tokyo
Brasi
Germany
Japan
Shezo Murai
United States
Impawn
Si¢herhe
Barty ‘Security Service
Juan Sigride Becker Snost
Becker Sf
Becker
Russians Find Ancient City Under Turkestan Ruins
The Soviet expedition in London reports uncovering a city beneath a Turkestan building dating from the seventh to eighth centuries with destruction layers aligned to Arab conquest. Soviet researchers say traces indicate an early complex civilization predating common eras, possibly from the 20th century BCE.
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Old City
London
Rom
Genghis 5
Wwever
Soviet’ Institute
Central
Isiz
Southern GIs Find Plenty To Do In London
Southern American GIs in London report better integration than others according to Red Cross workers near Piccadilly Circus. They enjoy sightseeing museums churches and tours while Northern troops prefer pubs and nightlife. The London visit is praised as lively and engaging with broad approval from GIs and local staff.
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London
Agham
Cape Oir
Texas
WEB to Give Lessons On How to Mend Clothes
Washington. The War Production Board plans a national program to teach housewives to mend clothes and practice conservation. Howard C, head of the WPB conservation division, says the program will be coordinated by WPB and WPR and begin early next month through department stores, retail services, newspapers, radio, and official pamphlets.
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Washington
Wet Production Board
Clans School
Howard Cy
WPB
WPR
States Try New Wrinkle To Halt Cattle Rustling
Elko Nevada officers from Idaho and Nevada exchange duties to enforce interstate deputy authority aimed at breaking up rustling bands. The plan seeks to stop cattle theft and carcass movement across the state line via automobile.
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Elko, New
Idaho-Nevada
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