Accessorized Spring Fashion Dominates Wardrobes
Fashion notes a shift toward accessories as the season’s focal point with chamois leather accents, gold jewelry sets, and frilly neckwear. The feature highlights navy and black outfits paired with vibrant belts, hats, and lingerie-inspired details, stressing personal style and coordinated ensembles.
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Navy
Paris
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Western Newspaper Union
Chic Spring Furs And Turquoise Jewelry Fashion Notes
Dainty furs and fur trimmings for spring sportswear headline Cherie Nichols column. A snow flecked weasel jacket suits young women with beige to brown tones, pairing with browns or pastel palettes. Turquoise jewelry trends include long bead strands wrapped around the neck with detachable clips.
Feminine Curves Come Into Favor This Year
Rosina McDowell Lynn of the Mc Dowell school of costume design credits Mussolini and Hitler with shaping a trend toward natural curves for American women. She asserts the era moves away from Mae West and Gibson girl silhouettes toward healthier, natural contours and predicts diets like spinach and grapefruit will fade.
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Rosina McDowell Lynn
McDowell School of Costume Design
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Hitler
Flecked White Linens Spark Spring Frocks Trend
Linen fabrics with frecks created by splinters of color appear in spring frocks. Cream linens with red black embroidery shown. New blotting paper pink flame and pastel tints lead colors. greens browns and grays suit linens. Linen corsets lingerie gloves bags hats shoes tie the season. Golf suits tea gowns evening frocks flying suits and tennis shorts use the new flax weaves.
Velvet ensembles loom in London fashion week
Velvet ensembles and velvet dresses with long narrow capes are described as favored in London with matching gloves and hats creating a graceful line at the event.
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London
Comfortable house frock pattern for busy homemakers
The pattern 2083 offers a simple three-piece dress with back yoke sleeves and front, plus slimming half belt and optional patch pockets. Sizes range from 14 to 44 with size 16 needing 8% yards of 36 inch fabric. Illustrated instructions and order details included.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Department
West Seventeenth Street
New York City
Girdle Sparks Quip as Villain Grabs Woman’s Waist
A Mountaineer scene captures a short pulp moment where a villain yells curse words while snatching at a girl's waist and she retorts that he’s mistaken, insisting it is a girdle. The exchange underlines playful tension in the page’s fiction excerpt.
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U. S
West Virginia Mountaineer
Deeper and Deeper He Take my seat
A humorous exchange begins with a man insisting on offering his seat to a woman and extending the gesture to all ladies, reflecting a chivalrous ideal as reported by Berlin Die Gruene Post.
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Berlin
End of It Diner Menu Joke About Croquettes
A London Answers joke notes chicken croquettes as the part that goes on the table last, a quip about diner menus and leftovers.
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London
Forgotten party leads to playful London exchange
A brief quoted exchange from London Tit-Bits recalls a forgotten party invitation and a witty retort about attendance, illustrating social humor and polite remarks typical of the era.
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