High fashion cottons shape summer wardrobe
Versatile cotton fabrics shift from workday wear to high fashion with American designers leading. The piece highlights washable options, care labels, and bold garments from tunics to cocktail and formal dresses. It notes Seminole patchwork inspired by Edith Young and Margaret Newman, plus practical summer outfits like aqua and mauve sun-back dresses with cooling fabrics.
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America
Edith Young
Miami
Fla
Margaret Newman
Miss Newman
Keep Cool But Covered By Alicia Hart
Bare-backed dresses return to summer fashion but older women should avoid them unless blessed with firm flesh for prints. Even near fifty, many avoid reveal styles, yet cool options exist with bertha collars or capelets, and the ever popular stole offers cover.
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Alicia Hart
Fashion tips for shorter figures and pear shapes this season
The piece advises shorter wearers to avoid bulky lines and choose verticals to gain height. It discusses pear shapes with heavy hips, recommending stand up collars, minimal shoulder padding, and dressing to downplay hips. It also suggests flared hems and avoiding hip-heavy suit jackets and draped skirts with large pockets.
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Alicia Hart
Reminder for Brides on Thank You Notes
Brides should send thank you notes promptly after the wedding trip or even before returning home. Use tasteful cards or note paper designed for this purpose. Only the bride signs, using Alice or Alice Smith with her new surname in letter case.
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Alice
Alice Smith
Hints to collectors spark growth in card collecting hobby
Reports from Girl Scouts, women's clubs, and other groups note a rising hobby of collecting greeting cards. Enthusiasts classify cards by occasion, design, and era, sharing tips at meetings and club events to build organized archives.
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Girl Scouts
Collectors Trade Card Sets For Hobby Exhibits
According to artists of schools of art, collectors seek cards featuring species of flowers birds or animals. They gather these in scrapbooks and frequently display them in hobby exhibits.
Indoor outdoor thermometer reads indoors
A new indoor outdoor thermometer uses a bulb mounted on a window sill bracket with a flexible capillary tube running indoors to the scale, preventing heat from the house from skewing readings.
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Virginia Spiller
Lanella
Marlyle
Poet’s
South Illinois
Carbondale
Ulinois
No. 8
Devine
Donald Grant
Homer A. Tomlinson
of the Church of God
the Miners’ Hall
West Frankfort
Kelvinator
BROWN
Colombo
Southern Illinois
North 14Th Street
Herrin
Tommy Dorsey
Cab Calloway
Paris
Gershwin
Gordon Macrea
Duke Ellington
Sarah Vaughn
Artie Shaw
New
R.P.M
Children Records
Hernando
Joey
the Happy Wanderer
Illinois
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