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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1927
Page
7
The article praises cotton fabrics and light colors for children's dresses, recommending gingham and cambric for play, with pink and blue shades favored. It notes elegant models like yoke dresses and smocked frocks, explains smocking techniques, and encourages home sewers to try simple guides for patterns.
A black frost crepe frock features the new yoke effect with plaited beige chiffon. Peasant braid trims the neck and sleeves and forms the belt. The same treatment appears on the sleeves, creating a coordinated design.
Smocked dresses of printed pongee arrive from London. The frocks carry youthful chic associated with clothes made at a famed Regent Street establishment.
The article notes that the latest silks feature small conventional designs with no multi colored duo tone effects, emphasizing understated patterns over bold, complex motifs.
Billie Dove, the film star, appears in spring fashion in a navy Poiret twill suit with set in pockets long sleeves and a kickplaited skirt. A navy taffeta hat with beige silk facing, a rose beige blouse, beige gloves a pouch bag rose beige camelia and black pumps complete the look. She wears this outfit in a scene from her film An Affair of the Follies.
The article outlines bridal veil draping to flatter different face shapes. Experts adjust folds and coronets to balance long, oval, large, or small faces, using side draping, halos, and restrained garniture for the small face.
The article explains hosiery as a key element in building a costume this season. Color dominates choices with new multi color and shaded treatments. Stockings vary from medium weight to sheer, with sheer preferred for most occasions except active sportswear and heavy street footwear.
The article highlights the season’s color emphasis with varied tonal values. It notes color schemes with subtlety and depth, describing the extensive range within reds pinks greens yellows and blues and the sophisticated use of these shades.
Ornamental buckles are essential trimming in Paris spring fashion. One house offers galalith buckles, a milk and sulfuric acid based material praised for lightness. Designs imitate wood enamel reptile skin or leather, showcasing versatile compositions.
The story narrates how fairies transform mud into a grand palace with pebble crowns and courtly figures while Sun complains of missing a holiday. The tale ends with gratitude to the cheerful fairies for creating joy despite the rain and mud.
Willie, four, spends a weekend with grandmother while grandfather is away. Upon return, the boy greets him with a witty line about being parked away from mother, highlighting a playful misunderstanding of time and family routine.
A child aged four inspects newborn twins and asks her mother if she was two when she was a baby. The moment captures a tender family scene and the child’s apparent glimpse of her own birth timeline.
A eastern college records a freshman student answering the query for parents names with Mama and Papa on the registration card. The exchange highlights a humorous or earnest moment in campus life.
Lieut Leigh Wade, famed flyer, was guest of honor at a Washington dinner. He deflects praise by saying modesty is a rare virtue. He recalls autographs by Anna Pavlova and Joe Coyne with a wry sense of humor about duty and talent.
An invention by A. O. Leonard claims to restore hearing and quiet head noises using a tiny in ear device. Requests for information go to Suite 63170 Fifth Ave New York City for prompt replies.
Hindu scientist with a thorny name declares plants can feel. Grace Tabor of the Woman's Home Companion agrees that vegetables are often ill treated. Vegetarians should remember this when they scold meat eaters noting plants grow better when loved like babies.
A novel carbonization process in England claims to produce five times the electrical energy from coal by an accurate device to measure coal temperature. The report notes Alaska ice sells for 2.50 dollars per half ton and four dollars per ton in bulk over two thousand pounds.
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