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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1903
Page
21
A preview of practical winter wear tailored for women featuring durable coats, layering pieces, and accessories. Highlights suggest versatile options from tailored wool coats to knit sweaters, with hints of color and texture to stay stylish yet warm through the chilly season.
The current display of tailor made gowns ranges from severe English styles to richly embellished French designs. Sleeves are notably small, collars and cuffs often velvet, with many outfits featuring scarves, braids, fringe, and decorative stitching. Velvet gowns dominate dressy wear while fur trims fall out of favor for street styles.
Katherine M. Giles claims to be the only woman forecasting crops including cotton after rising from a statistician’s assistant. Her accurate short cotton crop estimate boosted prices, and she credits luck while describing hard work and observation as the real engine behind her success.
The piece surveys late nineteenth century fashion items including three-quarter coats in dark-brown cheviot and light tan cloth with velvet, graphic trims like brown braid marked with red, passementerie, and Cluny lace. It notes evening wraps with ornate tailoring, plaid goods stocks, and evolving epaulette revival while detailing cuff finishes and color piping as stylish yet variegated elements.
Senator Platt relates a Washington anecdote about a man telling stories to a mixed party. He wagers a stranger is married because the woman opposite him constantly interrupts, saying you’ve forgotten something. The tale hinges on spouses spotting storytelling slips.
Romantic verse fragment imagining love as a rose and the speaker as a leaf or other natural images. The poem plays with roles of joy sorrow April May and night, depicting love as shared weather and seasons.
May Manton pattern No 4568 offers a doll costume with gown options and an evening cloak. Materials vary by fabric width with specified yardage for medium size 18 inches. Pattern coupon available from The Journal Fashion Department Indianapolis for 10 cents.
A women’s column answers questions on reducing large knuckles, avoiding habitually sleeping with hands under the cheek, and using massage and whitening lotions. It also gives baby feeding tips, barley gruel preparation, and cautions about caregiver choices. It recommends a violet cologne based lotion and a brunette skin powder routine for a refined complexion.
Marion advises women to choose skirt styles matching their figures. Stout figures should avoid the 1890s side and back gore vogue while slender figures suit it. Pleated and shirred effects persist, with many variations from designers, and choose gored, one piece, or two piece skirts for daily wear.
A short instruction encourages using a whitening lotion to harmonize dark skin with blue eyes. It suggests persistent care and fruit consumption as part of a whitening regimen and implies safe self-care practices.
Billy asks his mother what she desires for Christmas a playful game unfolds with her responding she would like a diamond pin and hints at wanting more. The dialogue centers on a child prompting grownups to voice desires for gifts in January St Nicholas era style.
J B outlines practical non surgical care for bunions including loosening footwear soft wide shoes and large stockings. Suggests warm baths rubbing with tincture of Arnica and alcohol removing callouses and using warm flaxseed poultices and iodine spermaceti ointment to reduce swelling and pain. Arnica plasters are recommended while avoiding blistering harsh remedies.
A detailed guide for hosting a birthday party supper with dainty dishes and a festive table. Suggestions cover a clear broth menu, tiny rolls, lamb chops, chicken, fruit salad in orange baskets, and dessert, plus floral centerpieces with carnations or roses and ferns.
A child asks for gifts amid snowfall as the mother contemplates surprises. Billy urges his mother to desire many items including a lace collar and baby's curtains, while he hints at a Christmas gift she has been promised. The moment ends with a tender kiss and a soft wonder of what will be received.
The piece critiques costly clothing for children and praises home craft for dressmaking. It discusses expressions of beauty, facial features, and hygiene, with tips on eyes, brows, lips, and skin, plus anecdotes on spinsterhood and homemaking traditions. It surveys confectionery recipes and domestic arts advice from various periodicals.
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