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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
7
A vogue feature urges women to wear colors and cuts that flatter their complexions and figures. It highlights empire style gowns, oversized hats, and light fabrics, noting new overskirts, draped silhouettes, and refined accessories like embroidery, fur wraps, and ribbon details. The piece stresses choosing flattering palettes, avoiding fashion fads that wash out or distort the wearer.
Catherine Talbot surveys Paris fashion as empire and directoire influences reemerge in winter gowns. She notes spangled robes in blue gray hues, chrysanthemum motifs in passementerie, and the rise of dinner frocks and restaurant wear. Evening cloaks, wraps, and galeried sleeves feature heavily, with designers like Paquin and Worth highlighted alongside vivid fabrics and new silhouette contrasts.
Fashionsim notes that white for nuptials emerged late, with Roman and French influences. It traces pink, crimson, yellow, and blue as bridal colors across eras, highlighting Mary Stuart’s 1588 white gown and the shift to white by late seventeenth century for royal brides.
Jewelry fashion notes highlight the chatelaine bracelet with a vanity case and trinkets. New bracelets show large stones or panels with open diamond links or heavy gold Brabesques. Broad rings use dull gold bases and bold gem contrasts like ruby or sapphire. Large stones are in demand with fine gold filigree and single gem settings.
A survey of fashion trends highlights jet and gold embroidery on net, glove-up top decorations, and coordinated jewelry with lace and embroidery. It notes popular turquoise bracelets, pale olivine colors, lattice gem front chains, and wide pelerine style wraps, plus a local remark on Mrs Gilés Spear preferring cremation and yellow.
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