Pleat Tailor and Tuck Silk Fashions of 1936 Style
Silk remains the solution for stylish costumes as pleating tucking and meticulous tailoring dominate the season. Fashion highlights include black and white printed silk crepe jackets refined with braid edges a white organdy frill and navy blue silk sheet tunics with pleats and puffed sleeves. Turbans showcase purple silk violets while bolero outfits push blouses to the fore with bright colored silk sheers and pleated silks as the trend drives daring color combinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milady
Western Newspaper Union
New Cotton Fabrics Parade Marks Spring Fashion
Cotton looks like silk or wool with gauzy sheer effects and new blends. Cold laces top spring and summer swank in tailored sportswear for resort wear and versatile later use. Peasant weaves in natural neutrals plus bright accessories rise in cotton and linen with embroidery surging in casual wear and evening lines.
Dark Blue Gains Popularity for Summer Fashion
The piece notes very dark blue or midnight blue rising in appeal for summer. Purplish tones influence the new reds and blues, while gray subtly shifts blues to a slate shade. Greens take on reseda green and verdigris hints. A new burnt straw or toast shade is strongly promoted for summer.
Paris Decree Promotes Matching Gloves and Shoes
The article notes a Paris fashion trend where gloves and shoes are coordinated in color and material. Paris bootmakers display two toned footwear with suede and kid skin halves, and gloves echo this by combining suede on one side with kidskin on the other.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Print Coats By Cherie Nicholas
A fashion note describes a plain coat over a print frock as the latest trend. The redingote shown is black and white print linen atop a black linen dress with short sleeves. Bright silk print coats and floral silk jackets set to feature next months.
Book Buttons Add Gloss To Mid Season Frocks
Book buttons lend a highbrow air to several new mid season frocks. They are tiny, closed volumes of black enamels whose leaves are edged with gold.
Kemp Morgan and His Odd Oilfield Feats
The tale of Kemp Morgan, famed Texas Arkansas Oklahoma oil driller. He boasted more unusual exploits than any other seeker after black gold. From breaking loose a stuck drill in an alum mine to piping frozen oil from a 22 inch gusher, to tapping a rubber mine in Brazil and shipping rubber tires to Ohio, his strange methods and stubborn drills kept him in headlines across oil country.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Kemp Morgan
Kemp
Brazil
Ohio
Kangas
Private Life of Jonah not a whale but a northern Michigan fish
Stanley Suchwalke theorizes a big mouthed fish swallowed Jonah in northern Michigan. Laddie Hornik captured the monster in 1930 and sold its parts to buyers who paid high prices for scales, stomach, and other portions, revealing a golden throne inside the fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonah
Stanley Suchwalke
Michigan
Laddie Hornik
Laddie
Stanley
Moline
Onions Save Nebraska Farms From Despondent Grasshoppers
Leonard Bailer, a Nebraska farmer, faced drought, dust, and millions of despondent grasshoppers. He planted strong onions, which matured and drew the grasshoppers away by eating them. the crop recovered as the insects perished and tears drowned their threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Bailer
Nebraska
Leonard
Western Newspaper Union
Theory Pre-Dates Pasteur in Disease Origins
The germ theory of disease is older than Louis Pasteur, though he popularized its practical use by producing serums for anthrax and rabies. Before Pasteur, Athanasius Kircher, a seventeenth century German scholar, noted that files visiting the sick could contaminate food and spread illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Medical Society of
State of New York
Athanasius Kircher
Gay Cotton Print Dress Easy to Make and Sure to Please
Dress pattern notes for a sprightly child dress with a French bodice effect and flared skirt. Details include contrasting collar with ruf fled edging and puff sleeves. Patterns offered in sizes 2 4 6 8 10 with yardage and 15 cent pattern order info. Also includes quick tips on pewter stain removal milk in soups dinner hacks and fabric care tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
Hunger for Great Idea Inspires Life's Beauty
Quote from Jean Ingelow about a healthy hunger for great ideas as a driving force in life and creativity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Ingelow
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Turandot
Eau de Cologne
Hoffheimer
Hollywood
Burnham
Potter Mfg
Eugene
Ore
Ozzy
Mollie
Dizzy Dean
Battle Creek
Mich
U.S.A
Geneval Foods
Ing
Dizzy Daas
Reek
Dias
Siew
Jim
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