Paris Fashions At the Exposition Display
Catherine Talbot reports from Paris on the Salon Lumieres exhibition where Worth dominates the gowns on display. The piece highlights chiffon and satin gowns, lace corsages, and decorative embroidery, noting Worths popularity, a blue foulard gown, a pale green toilette for Mme Loubet, and a garden party at the Elysee with diverse foreign guests and summer gowns.
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Dex Lumieres
Deewanakers
Kgwa
Great Couturieres
Worth
How to Care for Cut Flowers With Axuriant Tips
Instructions on selecting handling cutting and arranging cut flowers for gifts and home display. Key steps include clipping stems and placing in water immediately trimming diagonally to remove bark sealing ends, adding a touch of moss or ammonia to water, and cooling and protecting the arrangement with moss and paper. Guidance on choosing jars and containers and using color harmony for room decor and lighting.
Artful Flower Arrangements and Preservation Tips
Artistic arrangement of cut flowers details various receptacles from glass jars to porcelain bowls and brass vases for travel and table décor. It notes line of grace in Japanese displays, cautions against tasteless effort, and advises color schemes with white red and yellow as easiest to use while blue purple fade under certain light. Also includes a tip to preserve white lace by storing and magnesia treatment for whitening.
Newport fashion notes show charming afternoon gowns
At the Newport summer resorts, outfits feature embroidered gray silk mantles with layered gray and blue underskirts, raised blue chenille flowers, and soft embroidered bodices. Pale gray and fawn coats with straight backs, bright red velvet collars, and gold buttons appear, while evening wraps echo sea blues and pale greens.
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Newport
Points on Cloth Gowns Fashion Tints and Detailing
The article describes light tinted fashionable cloth gowns with near pale green blue hues, vertical hip tucks and pant-like folds forming pannierlike girdles fastened with aliver clasps. Dresses require much work with tucked and corded materials and boleros often feature guipure lace or diagonal lace insertions.
A Smart Bathing Dress Described in Fine Detail
A charming bathing dress may be made of fine black eyelet and pale blue silk with white and blue silk tassels and cords. The peignoir des bains is an indispensable adjunct, perhaps fashioned of white voile deeply hemmed and ornamented with dots in black and pale blue thread.
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Werth
Dainty Chocolate Cream Dessert Preparation
A historical recipe describes mixing cocoa with milk and lemon rind, cooking the mixture, adding sugar egg yolk vanilla and gelatin, then whipping to a frothy sponge before molding and serving with custard crackers. The method emphasizes gradual heating and thorough whisking to create a light dessert.
Jagged Pigeons Recipe From an Old Menu Note
A fragmented cooking note describes preparing stuffed pigeons with liver mix, eggs, lemon rind, parsley, and breadcrumbs. Pigeons are boiled, stuffed, sewn, and roasted in a water bath with celery, wine, and bouquet garni, then served with buttered gravy. Additional stain removal advice mentions kerosene for table fabrics.
Serviceable gowns and the liberties of fashion
Transformation in gown design demands up to date construction and versatile features. Modern gowns use transparent crapes open grenadines or black lace with removable long sleeves and movable chemisette to alter appearance. White lace bodices with long sleeves and open throat, lace boleros in black or white, and changing velvet bands offer varied styling without bulk.
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Conturieres
A Royal Bathing Gown for a Princess
Queen Victoria's granddaughter, a 16 year old daughter of Princess Henry of Battenberg, debuts a new bath gown described as smart and comfortable for maidens up to 37. The outfit features a seamless tunic with red serge seams, red braid trimming, and matching trimmed sleeves. Bathing drawers are plain with braid near the knee. navy serge with white or red trim recommended.
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Victoria
Henry of Battenberg
A Pretty Fete Gown Bridesmaid Dress Description
A bridesmaid gown in soft Japanees silk features a slightly full bodice with tucked yoke, lace insertions, and a delicate silk rosette detail. Soft grass green mousseline de soie drapes the shoulders, with long stole ends reaching the feet, and a lace edged skirt with vandykes trims. The underpetticoat is in matching grass green silk.
Modernized 19th Century Cookery Fragment
A fragmented OCR recipe passage lists methods for preparing potted beef and jam and a mock goose. It describes shredding cooked beef and ham, mincing, mixing with potted beef, and stewing beef with onions. The text preserves older spellings and odd dish names while detailing cooking steps and garnishes.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Parisat
Serine
Che Joets
Aergs
Foulard
Kate Greenaway
Pine
Jousseline de Mole
Aneces
Elysee Palace
Faubourg St. Germain
Loubet
la Helle Pompadour
Catherine Talbot
Theurney
Levres
Limoges
Ching
Japan
Delft
Worcester
Viola Allison
Luscheom
Bice Wallen
Donna
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