Alteration Cost Eliminated By Perfect Sizing In Woolens
A 1930s fashion feature highlights ready to wear woolens offering perfect sizing to avoid alterations. Describes color, style options like a blue wool dress with Peter Pan collar, a silver-gray taffeta dress with rhinestones, and a toast-colored wool dress with matching jacket. Emphasizes shoulder to hem fit, slim skirts, and wearable sleeves for parties and dates.
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Minto
Tauiton
Huying
New
Hera
It Was Too Good to Be True Says Mrs Lindemann
Mrs. A Lindemann voices relief after trying No-Rinse Surf claiming it saved hours and eliminated back-breaking rinsing. She admits initial skepticism but found the product wonderfully effective for a large wash load.
Festive Woolens and Jewelry for Holiday Parties
The text describes festive fabrics and accessories for Christmas celebrations. It highlights dark twill, jeweled buttons, gold thread emblems, velvet collars and cuffs, and rhine stones. It notes bright colors, red for Christmas, and coordinated outfits with furs, coats, and accessories for elegant party looks. It mentions fashion details like embroidered emblems and softening trims.
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Colare
Informa
Manny
Prighter
Escort Fashion Purses Highlight Evening Charm
A vintage fashion note praises the escort style pocket purse designed for evening use. It details a compact clutch with lipstick holder and comb, two pockets for cosmetics and extras, and notes the effect of coordinated color and lace. The piece emphasizes practicality and allure in one accessible accessory.
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Avith Ginmor
Teenage Eye Makeup Rules for Safe Youth Styling
A dated guide advises teens and mothers on eye makeup with emphasis on natural look and safety. It warns against exotic treatments, suggests restraint to brow shaping, and offers step by step tips for grooming brows including cleansing, plucking, and finishing touches like baby oil to add sheen while avoiding infection.
Clothes Quiz: Altering a Little Boy's Double Breasted Suit
A mother asks Beth Blair how to alter her five year old son's double breasted light gray suit. She seeks color and fabric suggestions to extend wear, proposing cuffs and collar/pocket flap work. Blair advises careful hemming, dry cleaning first, and suggests two tones of gray or wine–violet hues with matching collar and pocket flaps if feasible.
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Miss Blair
Fabrig
Jon Ihaink
Family Forum Edges Youth In School-Parent Talks
A Bronx social studies program pairs high school students with parents for hour long sessions. In small groups juniors and seniors discuss finances and family issues to build mutual understanding and better guidance.
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FOUTH
Youvh
Lippgghort
Bronx
New York
Partisa
Moatiny
Decorative Trim Adds Style To Home Sewing
Decorative trims enhance garments for women who sew at home. Trimmings decorate and elevate outfits for mothers daughters and teens, offering professional touches. Smocking trims save hours and adapt to standard patterns by marking their placement on the pattern.
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Trushtig
Pont Fiat Ag
Paltern
Elimann
Pattern Preview for Fall and Winter Sewing Catalog
A brief sewing catalog note outlines perforated pattern pages with sizes 11 12 13 and M4 t6, featuring a blouse skirt and yardage guidance. Mentions a heaterloaf mailing, pattern numbers, and a new fall winter guide aiming to help sewists plan wearable tall clothes and smart outfits.
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Vail
Binh
Sin Burnett
Aninricax
New York
Dear Miss Woodward Advice on love and second chances
A reader asks how to win back a hesitant partner after two years of on again off again. Advice suggests confessing lingering feelings during a calm moment and proposing a specific invitation, such as a dinner, to test rekindling interest. The second letter advises against pursuing a friend of the current beau and proposes double dating to alter the dynamics and attract the man she truly likes.
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Miss Woodward
Foxi
Jack
Hoya
Tay
Bing
New Home Hair Color Claims Salon Quality in Minutes
An at home camouflage hair color promises salon like results in 30 minutes with no prior prep. It uses small brush like applicators, requires 15 minutes to develop after application, then shampoo and set. Available in 12 colors including cassaty diamond bamboo blonde starlight blonde and brown shades.
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IWR Rat Ayer
Xoud
Bale Dive
Uch
Cuaer
Yale
Cassaty
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