Dress Couture Notes and Social Attitudes of the Era
A lively survey of necklines and dress fittings, highlighting collar fixes, new turnovers, fabrics, and embroidery trends. Includes commentary on fashion forwardness, literature on traits inferred from hands and thumbs, and notes on youth embroidery, fabrics like foulards, and color schemes. Shows shifting social norms, chaperonage debates at Smith and Leith colleges, and evolving student freedoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Gazette
Foulards
Weeping Women and Chaperons in Modern Society
The piece surveys shifting social norms, noting rising chaperone expectations in Uncle Sam’s country, and critiques women’s crying as unfashionable. It cites mothers broadcasting daughters’ exploits and younger men’s reluctance to engage, urging restraint and calmer courtship in polite circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolly West
Europe
Moore
Byron
School Girls and the Perils of Adolescent Health
A vintage warning on female health from a medical column urges mothers to protect daughters from menstrual and reproductive ailments. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sartboartle Usandey
Ormarental
Tay conwlanUy
Momia
Ike
Tada
Lydia E. Pinkham
Taienek & Young Girl
Gill
Nate
How Miss Wilson and Her Sister Were Cured
Testimonial from Attica Indiana dated October 23 1900 praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief of painful menstruation. Mention notes six bottles taken by Maer E Wilcox and marked improvement. sister also benefited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Wilson
Dean Mus
Prroxnam
Donne
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sean
Mazer E Wilcox
Attica
Ind
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Webb
Bern
Washington
Enilmy
Foulard
Insett
Dale
London
Alexandra
Victoria
Jared
Alexan
Breta
Harscter
Lore
Mamd Eamon
Sunday Chronicle
Smith College
Algernon
Amherst
Stith
Witte
Leith College
Kays
New York Tribune
Brown
Mra Z
Ethel
Harry Midas
Ethel Violetx
Liza Amex Willie
Marquette Hodlding
Chicago
Banning Co
Totern
Bolling
A. Asenders
Creek Batiarium
Doles
Wong
Matt
Veal Bros
Neen
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