Cretonne Takes Fashion Stage for Home Dressmakers
A home dressmaker’s guide highlights cretonne as a season’s standout. Cretonne trims white garments and now garments themselves. next to sports wear, afternoon gowns, and a versatile range of outfits from smocks to sports coats. Pattern numbers and fabric pairings appear with suggested uses for lawn, linen, gabardine, pongee, taffeta, and silk to craft daily wear and elegant ensembles.
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Uly Cretonne
Ajone Cretonne
Cretonne
Latest Fashion Notes on Navy Silks and Sport Skirts
Fashion notes highlight glove silk sweaters in Navy blue with yellow trims ideal for cool days and evenings. Describes silk sports costumes with white habitai silk kilts, satin-striped coats, purple collars, and Panama hats. Pongee emerging as favored sportswear material with new skirt styles.
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Tennils
Panama
New Season Fashion Sketches: Skirts, Boleros, and Blouses
An article outlines summer and early autumn fashion hints with walking and shortened skirts, breeches for sports women, and innovative combinations of blue and white checks with tela. It highlights navy gabardine outfits, box-plaited skirts with scalloped edges, high collars, and several new blouses featuring hand embroidery, soutache braiding, and organdie accents. The text notes the popularity of boleros, plaited jackets, pongee, and flowered silks, predicting more bolero outfits and underbodices in September.
Fashionable Collars and Fichu in Latest Styles
Fashionable fichus dominate the latest styles with dainty feminine charm. Three designs shown, including a simple waistline fichu and draped shoulder versions in sheer mull lace and net. Soft draping fabrics like marquisette and sheer muslin urged, adjustable over plain bodices for a finished look.
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Aperoorta Ea Agepsan A. 3
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