Fashions in Lace Collars and Silks From 1900s Illustrations
The article describes spring and early summer lace collar troubles and fixes, including weight bands and buttoned backs. It highlights blue note with white antique collar, fagoting details on seven-gored skirts, and the use of nainsook, voile, and silk chiffons in street and evening gowns. It notes trends in fagotting, embroidery, and color shifts toward darker shades for silk suits and coats. Attempts to balance style with durability and economy in fabrics like chiffon and voile are emphasized.
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Kansas City Journal
Women buyers lively in New York this summer
The New York letter says the advance guard of women buyers will swarm New York until mid August, with about fifteen thousand last year. They tour hotels, theaters, and shops in gleaming outfits, inspect hats and dresses, and train in copying Paris fashions while milliners and dressmakers from across the nation converge for the season.
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New York
Washington Star
Stem
Stern
Barterino
Indianapols
Regal
Diana
Miss Pick
Omaha
Castoria
Martin's
Rector's
Chinatown
Coney
Mystic Isle
Paris
Canvas Tops With Lacing and Drain Eyelets
In New York on June 26, canvas tops of varying heights are described as being laced up. The design includes multiple eyelet holes at the bottom to allow water drainage.
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New York
Neatness a Virtue Not Always Practiced by Women
A Harper's Magazine excerpt discusses women wishing to be men and the differing desires of genders. It notes men rarely wish to be women and explores why women may want the masculine life to influence husbands, while men worship women yet keep their own role. The piece examines social expectations and gender contrast with authorial light humor.
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Harper's Magazine
W. D. Howells
Neatness: a masculine virtue for women to copy
A Philadelphia Ledger piece argues neatness in personal adornment defines a well dressed woman. It cites care in hair, collars, gloves, and skirts, noting that neglect undermines beauty and that meticulous grooming conveys true attractiveness. The critic insists neatness outweighs fashion excess.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Jess
The Happiest Day in a Woman’s Life
A group of Philadelphia Telegraph readers discuss what marks the happiest day for a woman. Answers range from travel and motherhood to literary success and marriage, but Isabel reframes happiness as the moment she faces the future without fear and embraces faith, joy, and enduring hope.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Dorothy
Amy
Europe
Isabel
For Her Summer Cottage
A New Orleans Times-Democrat reader describes a city cottage adorned entirely in green to evoke a woodland mood. She details green stained floors and furniture, white Swiss curtains with bold green ruffles, and a center hall table repurposed from an old kitchen piece.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
A Smart Summer Costume from The Journal Pattern
A smart black street costume features taft fabric with tailor style stitching. The coat is tucked in at the body and skirt, seven gore skirt with tucked seams. Pattern numbers 4444 jacket and 4348 skirt fit sizes bust 32 to 40 and waist 22 to 30 inches. Send 10 cents per pattern plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Pattern Dept The Journal Indianapolis Indiana.
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the Journal
Indianapolis
Ind
The Croft House and Green Themed Rooms
A reader describes redecorating a home named The Croft with a pale primrose yellow and green theme. Details include yellow framed prints, white Swiss curtains, rose guest rooms, and bamboo screens repurposed as verdant veranda decor. The piece notes the master stroke and a playful chorus about wearing the green field motto.
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John
Fashion and household tips from a bygone column
Practical advice spans cleaning, preservation, and care for garments and foods. It covers beating water with a Dover egg beater to improve taste, sun fading of pastel dyes, powdering gloves to prevent perspiration damage, licorice for ants, Borax use, keeping warm food with hot water, lemons under glass for long-term storage, floral sashes for young women, matched shoe colors, refreshing rusty black lace with vinegar, and a stray note on roasting with mutton.
Fashion Notes and Domestic Tips from a Bygone Era
The piece describes cooking with carrots and onions paired with veal and mutton, plus fashion trends. It mentions a twelve year old girl, a new skirt style with broad pinafore straps, and a separate shirtwaist. Linen gowns in New York workrooms are highlighted with heavy lace and elaborate ornament.
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New York
Men Enter Women’s Hotel A Step Toward Open Doors
New York’s women’s hotel introduces male waiters amid mixed reactions from guests. Women demanded the change, preferring more practical staff, while some fear the scent of cigar smoke signals broader access. Management plans to install trousered staff and welcomes male guests gradually.
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New York
Women's Hotel
Women’s Hotel
Walters
Bell
One Woman's Work by Miss Helena Gould Aide to Children
Boston Transcript notes Miss Helena Miller Gould hosts summer visitors from New York tenements at Woodycrest in Westchester. Her charity supports thousands of children with summer outings and training for life work. Her annual philanthropy reportedly amounts to about $1,000,000, much of it unseen, enriching many lives.
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Boston Transcript
Helen Sauer Gould
Beys
New York
Westchester County
Woodycrest
Women and Vestry Service in the Church Debate
Harper’s Weekly discusses whether women should serve on church vestries highlighting the tension between tradition and reform. The piece notes vestries oversee temporal church affairs, with men often scarce in weaker parishes, and observes women already have influence, while direct voting power remains debated in older churches versus progressive groups like the Christian Scientists.
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Harper's Weekly
Precopel Church
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