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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1921
Page
8
Paris fashion notes highlight knitted blouses and dresses as summer wear with vivid colors and refined fabrics. Designers emphasize the sweater blouse as a dressy replacement for standard blouses, with Parisian models shaping the trend for autumn wardrobes alongside tailored gray check suits and soft wool sportswear.
The text discusses brushed wool clothing worn inside out for warmth in outdoor winter games and practical wear. It highlights a knitted ensemble including a skirt, high-necked overblouse, and a hat shown in films, popular for country wardrobes next season. It also notes bold color trends and a disturbing superstition about cutting children’s ears linked to old beliefs.
Instructions on renewing hats with pressing and cleaning methods. Includes washing with soap and water, oxalic acid solutions, lemon juice paste, and dyeing with commercial dyes for straw and black hats. Also covers cleaning ribbons, flowers, and fabrics with gasoline, oils, or steam, plus reshaping and edge tinting.
Eyelashes that paste on over natural lashes draw attention at a recent American Ladies' Hair Dressing association exhibition in New York. The display includes other innovations in feminine attractiveness and a hat designed to cover long hair, reducing the need for cutting. A moving picture parable shows a wife regaining affection after rejuvenating her complexion. Spanish influence appears in full skirts and ball trimming echoing a Spanish dancer’s flying skirt.
The readable lines describe glove wear and tear at the Anger tips and suggest tearing, stitching, and pulling together worn areas. Additional fragments mention dainty blowers with round collars edged with ruffles and color detailing, hinting at fashion guidance for delicate gloves and attire.
A Paris fashion insider notes enormous picture hats dominate spring race meetings. Influential Paris milliners plan bold wide brim styles to stay in vogue as fashion shifts amid a debate over feasibility and reception.
Readers can view a notable display of 1880s dresses, with cloche styles keeping their appeal through the summer and into autumn. The exhibit highlights how fashion cues from that era endure across seasons.
Fashion notes describe oriental influence in embroideries and trims. Wool patterns and ribbons, feather fans, white linen garments with needlework, and low back trimming on hats echo Spanish styles. Underwear in gold satin and patchwork silks appear, with sheer stockings and cobweb weaves entering shops at low prices as the season advances.
A Paris fashion roundup notes sleeves remain long while skirts stay short and wide. Embroidery shifts toward oriental motifs on broad sleeves. Coque feather accents hide tiny vanity boxes in bands. New Watteau silhouettes and long tongue pumps reflect Directoire influence. Off the brim trims fade at exclusive events. A Paris correspondent cites a push for a return to a straight shoulder to hip line.
Classified ad offers a passenger Oakland car in good condition for sale with exchange for nearly new Port runabout, listed under Mrs T J Hook and Rosemary N C. Also lost Eastman Kodak film no 120 with reward for return to this office.
Accessories for summer feature vivid pocketbooks with carved mountings and cameos. Blue silk bags with wedgwood cameos and coral silk edged with fine borders show inlays of stones. Parasols from Paris and London display Mack and white stripes and brown striped silks, while floral fabrics trend for sunstrades.
Two through line of W A Johnston estate describes lots on Furgerson Street including Lot 4 and Lot 2 with specified dimensions and stakes. Survey by Chas E Foster Civil Engineer dated July 5 1921 recorded by Ay House Sheriff of Halifax County.
In Halifax County Superior Court Indiana Vincent and Manson Vincent are named in a divorce action. The defendant must appear at the July term to answer or demur. failure will bring the relief sought. Also notice of sale under execution in the Halifax County Superior Court lists H D Mayocution and BE. E. Wollett. An August 1921 sale is scheduled at eleven o'clock A M at the county courthouse.
County Superior Court in Halifax will sell at the courthouse door on Monday August 16 1921 at 11 A M for cash the interest of J J Lancaster in a described tract of land in Littleton Township Halifax County North Carolina That land begins at a stake corner lot number and is to be sold under execution issued to Lina directing the sale of Lancaster estate
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