Velvet and Lace Dominate Formal Gown Trends This Season
Fashion experts spotlight a return to Grande Dame evening wear with velvet gowns, delicate lace, and metal fabrics. Black velvet remains favored for its flattering silhouette while new silhouettes feature flounced hems, high front necklines, and back train lines complemented by gloves and cobweb lace in blackberry shades.
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Lelong
Schiaparelli
Black Sheep Tweed Tops Fashion Fabric Scene
The piece highlights Black Sheep Tweed as a new fabric from Schiaparelli and American designers. It describes its rough flecked undyed wool, its brown or gray color, and its use in sporty outfits including a gray black sheep tweed jacket with yellow fleck, a gray skirt, and a knit silk blouse. It also mentions a full length coat and introduces New Jersey fabric used in a gray sports suit with red silk blouse options.
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Black Sheep
Schiaparelli
New Jersey
Hem Trends Dominate Longer Autumn Skirts
Mae Westish notes hems gain emphasis as skirts lengthen with swish designs. Trim styles include flounces, knife-pleating, box pleats, pressed fabric, and contrasting fabrics. Bows and appliques between knee and ankle height add decorative flair to swirling silhouettes.
Juvenile fashion echoes haute couture trends
A preview suggests this winter will feature velvets and ribbed fabrics in children's clothing as young shoppers imitate adult high fashion styles, with special houses and organized showings guiding the season's look.
Chin Flowers Fashion by Cherie Nicholas
Chin flowers are worn under the chin as evening novelties to complement high in front necklines on formal gowns. Velvet poppies are the favored style placed under the chin, with daywear adaptations seen on a rust colored wool frock and a black crepe dress featuring chrysanthemums.
Fall Fashion Features Hug-Me-Tight Jackets
fall fashion shows featured hug-me-tight jackets including a black wool frock paired with a sleeveless waist length hug-me tight jacket crocheted in heavy white silk and wool thread.
Idas Gilbert to Megaphone Wielder to Film Designer
Ida Clair Gilbert mother of theater, born in Logan Utah, rose from stage child to leading man, screenwriter and director. He pursued business early with Goodrich Rubber before joining Thomas H Ince at Inceville and Mary Pickford in Heart of the Hills. He later worked with Maurice Tourneur then Fox MGM, starring in Monte Cristo Cameo Kirby The Wolf Man Desert Nights Redemption Woman of Affair The Cossacks and The Big Parade.
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Logan
Utah
Hitchcock Military Academy
San Rafael
Calif
Eddie Foy
Goodrich Rubber Company
San Francisco
Portland
Thomas H. Ince
Inceville
Mary Pickford
Heart of the Hills
Maurice Tourneur
Tourneur
New York
California
Fox Studios
Monte Cristo
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Triangle Plant
Tom Buckingham
M-G-M
Ilesh
The
Devil
the Cossacks
Big Parade
Hal C. Herman
Rainfall in Song of Poets Chronicle Nature's Shower
A survey of rainfall as a natural force praised by poets and philosophers. The piece cites Noah Psalms Shakespeare Longfellow Bryant Lewes Burroughs and Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills advertisement concluding with an old glandular tonic plug.
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Shakespeare
Milton
Longfellow
Bryant
George Henry Lewes
John Burroughs
Burroughs
Indianapolis News
Loretta Young Breaks Through With Chaney Film Heroine
Actress Loretta Young scored her first major screen success as the leading woman for Lon Chaney in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. In 1929 she and sister Sally Blane were named Wampas babies and she has since appeared in The Squall Loose Ankles They Call It Sin Grand Slam and 300 in Budapest.
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Loretta Young
Lon Chaney
Sally Blane
Budapest
May Robson Star Of Stage Through Years Of Fame
The renowned May Robson has graced theater for half a century and spent 22 years with Charles Frohman in New York. She later transitioned to film with notable successes in Men Must Fight, White Sister, and Reunion in Vienna.
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May Robson
Charles Frohman
New York
Vienna
Astonishing Question by Benita Hume on Matrons Rules
English actress Benita Hume in Clear All Wires at MGM notes the public reaction in this country as mothers and guardians allow thirteen to fifteen year old girls to apply makeup and style their hair with growing boldness.
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Benita Hume
M-G-M
Incubating Speeches in Congress
A Boston Transcript line notes that congress spends long gaps between sessions, spending time on material for speeches and musing on keeping lawmakers in session constantly.
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Congress
Boston Transcript
Brief Life Cycle of Homeless Wasps in Open Habitat
The text explains that unlike hive bees, wasps do not reuse a previous home. the queen lives about a year and dies after the princesses leave for marriage flights. Worker wasps become queenless, loot their nest, and perish. homeless adults forage on fruits and insects, shelter in buildings at night, and perish when frosts come. Survival relies on hibernating young queens and winter severity.
Baldheaded Row and the Question of Hair Loss Causes
The essay challenges the view that baldness is solely physical. It notes millions seek remedies based on this belief, trusting experts who claim the cause lies only in hair roots or scalp nutrition. It questions whether historical figures like Socrates, Cicero, and Shakespeare illustrate any nonphysical factors.
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Socrates
Cicero
Shakespeare
Overcome Constipation With Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
Medical men endorse relief from constipation without salts or habit forming laxatives. A gentle liquid laxative like Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin can regulate bowel movements in weeks, is non habit forming, and gentle on kidneys. Read labels to avoid doubtful drugs and ensure safe ingredients at the drugstore.
Caldwell's Syrup Tec tea and liquid laxatives ad
This ad claims the product proves many people had bowel trouble not from weakness but from poor digestion. It promotes Caldwell's Syrup Tecta as the leading liquid laxative, recommending users choose a dose suitable to their system to induce movement.
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