Spring Style Show Brightens San Antonio Shops
Crowds of men and women filled San Antonio stores for the annual Spring Style Opening. Merchants showcased airy fabrics, white gowns, feather trims, new hats from Wolff & Marx and Saul Wolfson, and a bold line of street and garden hats as outdoor fashion week drew praise for color, light fabrics, and spring mood.
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Drugoods
San Antonio
Joske Brothers’ Company
Wolff & Marx Company
Saul Wolfson Drygoods Company
Washer Brothers
Joske Brothers Spark Spring Fashions at City Store
Joske Brothers Company unveiled a comprehensive spring opening featuring American styles and imported models. The display highlighted millinery trends glazed finishes, elaborate hats,Georgette street dresses and cocktail frocks, coats in varied lengths, and a broad array of white and colored fabrics with both men and women fashion focuses.
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Joske Brothers’ Company
Joskes
Moorread
Jardine
Gage
Louise
Wolfson's Windows Hold the Crowds
The Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Company displays spring windows with a garden scene and pale gray background. Featured dresses include evening, afternoon, street, and lingerie in crepe and chiffon, plus two color rajah silk suits and ostrich feather trims attracting shoppers.
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Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Company
Georgette
Blum's Spring Show Highlights Hickson Edward Mayer Gowns
Emil Blum Company staged a spring fashion show emphasizing Hickson tailored garments and Edward L Mayer gowns. The event featured 26 Mayer models including eight in the show window, with bold colors inspired by the Ballet Russe and a new one piece beltless skirt. Children from St Joseph's Orphanage attended, receiving spring dresses from Blum.
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Emil Blum Company
Hickson
Emil Blum
San Antonio
United States
Edward L. Mayer
Mr. Mayer
Mr. Blum
Mayer
Ballet de Russe
St. Joseph's Orphanage
Women Save Big on Do It Yourself Dry Cleaning
Readers are advised to save five to ten dollars by home dry cleaning coats, suits, and fabrics using salvite dissolved in two gallons of gasoline. The method cleans without fading shrinking or wrinkling and requires two ounces of salvite from the drugstore. Do it outdoors away from flames.
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United States
Living Models Display Styles at Washer Brothers Show
Living models displayed Washer Brothers garments from 8 to 6 Thursday afternoon, highlighting sport attire for swimming horseback riding golf and walking. The display featured lingerie negligee wedding trousseau and a separate millinery show with color coordinated hats.
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Washer Brothers’ Company
Washer Brothers
Trousseau
Sport Garments at Wolff & Marx Display
Wolff & Marx unveils spring sports wear emphasizing outdoor living. Skirts become shorter and wider with free waistlines, coats adopt smock and Norfolk cuts, colors echo grass greens and sunset oranges, and designs blend 1830s to 1860s influences with American flair.
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Wolff & Marx
Norfolk
Europe
High Shoes Remain Popular in Market Reports
Market notes from Guarantee Shoe Company indicate high shoes dominate the season with 90 percent of pumps built on Colonial lines and the high French heel favored for pumps and slippers. White leather emerges as the spring summer favorite with kid leather most valued. laced boots are trending in New York while low shoes target the southern market. Leather prices rise, suggesting further hikes. barefoot fashion could return. Stockings lean white gray black flesh tones with novelty white options and clocked or ribbed textures.
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Guarantee Shoe Company
New York
Variety Rules at Peyton Co
An array of evening gowns suits coats and skirts is displayed at the D F Peyton Ladies Suit Company upstairs at 215 Alamo Plaza for the spring style show. Manager Ira L Rupley presents outfits for every occasion with colors including old rose gray pearl gray bridal gray green and blue and black and white checks in sport clothes.
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D. F. Peyton Ladies’ Suit Company
Alamo Plaza
Ira L. Rupley
Flowers Adorn Spring Millinery By Edna Polhemus
Edna Polhemus at Alamo Plaza showcases spring millinery with abundant colors and profuse flowers. Hats range from very large to very small, designed to harmonize with outfits and echo the hoopskirt era, including a Kelly green marlines sailer and a Japanese colored bonnet.
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Edna Polhemus
Alamo Plaza
Miss Polhemus
Milady
Edwards Millinery Show Reveals Seasonal Sets in San Antonio
Edwards Millinery Company showcases spring sets featuring dancing, beach, and skating styles. The Elsie Darling dancing set includes a white net poke bonnet and rose accents with a matching bag. the beach set centers on a broad black hat with gold crown and coordinated bag and pillow.
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Milady
Edwards Millinery Company
Edwards
San Antonio
Rainbow Color Millinery Set Seen in Style Show
Miss Margaret Summer at Alamo Plaza presents a Georgette rainbow set with marine throw and large Leghorn hat covered in maline. Pastel roses accent front and back, complemented by a shell pink Du Barry Watteau in Georgette crepe with handmade chiffon roses. A pale pink Moorhead and Jardin poke bonnet displays pale blue forget me nots and army blue ribbon streamers.
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Margaret Summer
Alamo Plaza
Sammer
Novelties at the Vogue Show Bright spring display
The Vogue presents a conservative spring novelties showcase emphasizing gray and old rose tones with abundant white pieces. Checkered patterns and black and white designs are prominent, while the store highlights a balanced stock of quality items deemed proper for the season.
Large Display at Alkemeyer’s Millinery Opens Spring Hats
The season's millinery was attractively displayed at Alkermeyer's on Thursday. Windows and show cases glowed with spring offerings and a glazed effect prevailed. Walking hats in jet black and glazed straw attracted attention, trimmed with flowers.
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Alkermeyer
Mindes Spring Hats Display Showcases Elaborate Millinery
The Mindes Millinery Company presented a city style show featuring many Mindes designed spring hats. Models included a neapolitan tuscan garden hat, Vogue inspired sheer pink net piece, rose leghorn garden hat, Ca mille Roger black neapolitan crown, white Mary Garden with natural paradise sprays, and a Gaby Deslys black lisere straw with maline crown and velvet bands.
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Mindes Millinery Company
Mindes
Camille Roger
Mary Garden
Gaby Deslys
Madame Georgette
General Peraldi Wins Favor in Piedras Negras Command
General Fernando Peraldi, newly appointed Carranza army commander for the Rio Grande district with headquarters at Piedras Negras, has made a favorable impression in the city and grows more popular daily. He was previously at Monclova.
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Peraldi
Eagle Pass
Carranza
Piedras Negras
Tex
Fernando Peraldi
General Cueller
Rio Grande
Carranza Army
Monclova
Beauty Squad Named for Chicago Police on State Occasions
Chicago March 9. The West Park division designates twenty six handsome men as a beauty squad for duty on state occasions and at funerals.
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Chicago
West Park
Man to Patronize, Tailor Lentz Ad on Commerce
Advertisement notes Lentz, a tailor at 312 W Commerce, makes a suit for customers rather than for the shelf, urging patronage.
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Lentz
W. Commerce
Grand Jury Presents Gold Cuff Links to State Attorney
Travis county grand jury through County Attorney John E. Shelton presented Clyde O. Sweeton, assistant attorney general, a pair of solid gold cuff links in recognition of valuable services during the investigation of state cases. Sweeton aided in probes affecting the state during the long session.
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Austin
Tex
Travis County Grand Jury
John E. Shelton
Travis County
Clyde O. Sweeton
Sweeton
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