Accessory Emphasis Tops Spring Fashion in Velvet Chamois and Jewels
The piece notes fashion shifting toward accessories as the season’s key to style with chamois leather sets, bold costume jewelry, and innovative belts and hats. It highlights yellow chamois accents on navy, a four inch belt, new flat bag, and gold featherlight jewelry, urging readers to invest in distinctive neckwear and adornments.
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Navy
Paris
Vitagraph
Western Newspaper Union
Turquoise Jewelry Fashion Catching Eyes Across Town
Turquoise jewelry enjoys vogue with long strands of small beads worn in multiple wraps around the neck or wrist. A detachable clip keeps the strands in place, completing the stylish look.
Feminine Curves Come Into Favor
Rosina McDowell Lynn of the McDowell school of costume design attributes a renewed embrace of natural curves to a broader cultural shift and to Mussolini and Hitler encouraging women to focus on the nursery. She predicts diet trends like spinach and grapefruit will wane as the nation returns to a normal figure.
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Mae Westian
Rosina McDowell Lynn
McDowell School of Costume Design
Mussolini
Hitler
Flecked White Linens Spark Spring Frock Styles
Heavy white linens with multicolored flecks and cream linens with red and black figures lead spring frocks. New shades like blotting paper pink flame and pastels top linen dresses. Linen corsets lingerie gloves bags hats and shoes debut with golf suits tea gowns evening frocks and summer dresses in the season's flax weaves.
Velvet ensembles in London fashion trend
Velvet ensembles or velvet dresses paired with long narrow capes, matching gloves and hats draw favor in London as a graceful street fashion cue for the season.
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London
Simple frock pattern promises quick sew and chic result
Busy housewives will love Pattern 2088 with just three dress pieces the back yoke with sleeves and the front. Add a slimming belt bow pockets and frills or skip them for a neat effect. Sizes 14 through 44. 8 1 2 yards fabric for size 16. Send 15 cents to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept New York.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Department
West Seventeenth Street
New York City
Curse It Is Not a girdle Says the Mountaineer
A brief, humorous aside from the U S and West Virginia Mountaineer features a villain claiming a garb item at a girl while the girl identifies it as a girdle and dismisses the accusation. The exchange captures light tone and regional newspaper style.
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The
U. S. & West Virginia Mountaineer
Deeper and Deeper He Take My Seat Exchange
Dialogue between a man and a woman cited from Berlin and London papers. The man offers to stand for all women, while the woman thanks him. A diner menu joke follows about chicken croquettes and which part of chicken ends on the table last.
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Berlin
London
London Tit-Bits Quip on Forgotten Party
A brief quip notes a guest forgetting a recent party saying sorry I forgot your party the other evening. The line recalls social banter from London society columns with playful teases.
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London
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