Velvet colors rule formal fashion in velvet mood
Formal Velvets in High Color Mood highlights bold new velvet tones from Paris couturiers. Rich blues greens cerise and sapphire hues illuminate gowns capes and jackets with gold galon and gold lame accents. The piece notes dramatic color autarky of black velvet remains supreme while vibrant alternatives command attention via Molyneaux Lelong and rare fur trims.
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Paris
Couturiers
Bruyere
Molyneux
Molyneaux
Lelong
Western Newspaper Union
Lastex Materials Popular Across Sportswear and Upholstery
Lastex materials are used for sports suits ski wear and underwear as well as upholstery. The versatile fabric garners attention for its stretch and comfort across multiple products.
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Lastex
Italian Art Shapes Sleeve Styles in Paris Exhibition
The Paris art show influences sleeve design with very full and detachable mittenlike cuffs reaching above the elbow. Velvet contrasts with the dress and vivid transparent plastics appear in sequin accents. Bonffant sleeves and medieval panel lengths extend to the skirt hem.
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Paris
Dead White Emerges as Evening Fashion Color
Carmel Snow, Harper's Bazaar editor, notes dead white is the top color for evening wear in America. She links the London jubilee to the return of grand style, citing Vionnet’s marble white draped dresses as a key trend.
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Carmel Snow
Harper's Bazaar
London
America
Vionnet
Snow Suits For Ton In The Snow From Four To Eight
Two piece snow outfits for children ages four to eight feature plaid double breasted jackets with heart shaped collars and knit cuffs for warmth. Plain color jackets in brown, green, or navy pair with reinforced knee trousers and knitted cuffs, with a small matching cap and brim completing the set.
Romantic Potatoes Romance at the Country Club
Allen, a truck driver, falls for Molly a society girl after a club dance. She scrubs dishes to support her invalid mother while they pretend not to belong. He vows to find work as he reconciles with his lower status and their budding romance amid hardship.
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Anne Bradford
Allen
Alien
Molly
Rich
Quilt of Blocks That Picture Nursery Rhymes
Grandmother Clark offers Outfit No 491 four 8 inch blocks on bleached quilting material with outline embroidery for nursery rhyme themed quilts. Price 10 cents plus stamped addressed envelope for information from Home Craft Co Dept A Nineteenth and St Louis Ave St Louis MO.
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Address Home Craft Co
Dept. A
St. Louis Ave
St. Louis
New Salvage Feat by British Salvagers
British salvagers raised the sunken steamer Errol in the Firth of Forth using two obsolete submarines as pontoons. The partially submerged vessel, a navigation hazard, was buoyed by blowing ballast tanks and towed to Leith for beaching.
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Popular Science Monthly
Errol
Firth of Forth
Scotland
Leith
Economic value of Edison patents reaches 15 billion
Collier's notes that the economic value of Thomas Edison and his patented devices is estimated at 15 billion dollars. Since 1864 his inventions are credited with generating about 600 thousand dollars in property daily, reflecting vast industrial impact over generations.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Bdison
Hig
Collier’s
Household Questions Then and Now
Household tips from the WNU Service cover pie baking with cheese, easy marshmallow cutting, pricked apples to prevent skins, bulb care for tulips and hyacinths, roasting meat breast down for tenderness, kerosene for window cleaning in freezing weather, and whipping gelatin to prevent fruit settling.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU
Misdirected Kindness From Red Cross Leader Grayson
Rear Admiral Carry T. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, returned to New York from Paris saying some well meaning supporters have been knitting sweaters for Ethiopians. He warned the effort could be misdirected and urged more targeted aid.
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Carry T. Grayson
American Red Cross
New York
Paris
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