Palm Beach fashion notes highlight resort wear and accessories
A catalog of apparel and accessories for Southern resorts features sheer dresses, tailored gowns, white serge suits, voiles, panamas, taftas, embroidered linen blouses, French lingerie waists, and various gowns. It lists shawls, gloves, hosiery, and footwear in leather, calfskin, and canvas, plus fabrics like batiste and voiles for lingerie gowns and separate waists.
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Palm Beach
Ormonde
St. Augustine
Belfast
Exquisite chiffon broad cloth offered at reduced price
Dress Goods Department on the second floor advertises a dollar off the usual price for chiffon broad cloth in lustrous black. The 34 inch fabric, spotproof and shrunk ready, sells for 2.50 per yard, with value listed at 3.50. Also notes French printed organdies and mousseline as part of the selection.
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Cps White
Footwear and Social Season For Southern Resorts Ad
LACK and Gray Suede with Louis XIV heels and Beaded Patent Leather options in red blue white pink and more. Colonial shapes and sailor ties, Black Kid Beaded, Patent Leather Ties, Opera styles without straps. House slippers and carriage boots in varied choices. Slippers measured to match gowns with nonstock colors and gowns to order quickly. Overgaiters also available with about two week delivery. Third Noor-Tenth st.
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Noor
Embroidery and Lace Dept Opens Palm Beach Line
The Main Floor G Street offers a new line of exquisite MOUNCES for travelers heading to Palm Beach and other Southern resorts. The display highlights refined fabrics and delicate trims for stylish resort wear.
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Beach
Palm
Hand-embroidered Linen Apparel on Main Floor GST
Hand-embroidered linen walk ing suit patterns and linen waists and robes unmade unavailable later in the season. Embroidered handkerchiefs batistes laces and robes in white cream bisque salmon pink and violet shades. High grade French batistes Cluny and Baby Irish laces. Main floor GST.
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Batiste
Gown Materials Invites Inspection of Rare Fabrics and Accessories
The display showcases a global assortment from Paris, Lyons, Brussels, St Gall, and other markets. Rich silks and satins, nets and chiffons, and ornate laces and trimmings highlight the season for gowns and elegant social occasions. Massive furniture, rugs, draperies, and fine tableware accompany the home decor range.
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Paris
Lyons
Brussels
St., Gall
France
England
Austria
Bavaria
China
Japan
Social and Personal Ambassadors Dinner Highlights
Washington society notes record dinners hosted by Baron and Baroness Rosen for embassy staff, and by Mme Cortes for the American Minister to Colombia and Mrs Davison. Attendees include officials from the State Department and numerous diplomats, with several receptions and upcoming visits noted.
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Baron
Baroness Rosen
Colombia
Mine
Cortes
Davison
Mme. Cortes
Venezuela
Russell
Bacon
Buchanan
Walden
Legation and Mine
Gugman
Social Gossip and Art Treasures Across Elite Circles
Jealousy among American born Paris society women centers on Mrs Hart McKee as she entertains grand personages. The piece notes McKee’s dinner lists including royal blood and aristocrats at a reception for Infanta Isabella of Spain. It covers Senator William Clark purchasing Jules Breton Harvesting the Poppies for 40000, Clark’s art collection, and plans to open the mansion to the public weekly. It details Fortuny’s Choosing a Model and Diaz forest scenes, plus Spain’s royal birth customs and Cortes ceremonies surrounding an heir.
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Paris
America
Hart McKee
Hugh Tevis
McKee
Isabella
Spain
Mra McKee
Prince AH
Duke de Montpensier
Curacoff
Jules Breton
William A. Clark
Montana
Fifth Avenue
Bitty-seventh Street
New York
Montane
Clark
Senator Clark
Mendelssohn Hall
Fortuny
George J. Gould
Chicago
N.Y
Diaz
Cortes
Mre Thaw
Harry
England
Yarmouths
Marconi
Mrs Thaw
Royal birth plans and society rumors across Europe and America
A panorama of royal births and kinship politics spans Spain and Germany, with expectant heirs and enthroned cousins. British nobles, including the Dudleys, voyage to the West Indies and New York, while marriages and jewelry thefts ripple through New York society. An American heiress and British peers intertwine in Bermuda plans, and Prussian engagements unfold as Prince August Wilhelm tethers betrothal to Princess Alexandra Victoria. News of Miss Thaw’s scandal, departures, and Washington grip the season closes with social and political parallels.
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Earl
Dudley
Weat Indies
New York
Ireland
West Indies
Lord Dudley
Dublin
Castile
Washington
Countess of Dudley
Prince August Wilhelm
Prussia
America
Atlantic
Alexandra Victoria
Friedrich
Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Glucksburg
Prince August
Tus
Boon University
Alexandra
Prince Adalbert
Prince Henry
August Wilhelm
Social life and fashion notes from Washington society
The piece profiles Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Mia Longworth hosting after New Year, with Longworth family ties to Congress. It notes Mrs. Claute Swanson, wife of the Dominion’s chief executive, as a prominent Washington figure, and describes Swanson’s distinctive yellow leather jacket ensemble and riding attire. It also mentions Mrs. Fairbanks potentially leaving Washington for a milder climate due to illness.
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Senate
Timmons
Warren Fairbanks
Chicago
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Mia Longworth
Calle
Branch of
Congress
Virginia
OM Dominion
Claute Swanson
Diplomats at Auto Show Snapshotted by Camera Men
A Washington diplomatic delegation visited the seventh Madison Square Garden car show in New York. They toured exhibits, posed for photographers, and departed by special car at 1:30 AM Monday after a brief, formal reception at the Waldorf Astoria. The event runs daily until next Saturday night, with the building closed to the public during the day.
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Washington Post
New York
Madison Square’ Garden
Washington
Publc
Bulding
Batur
Waldorf-Astoria
Brock
Miss Natica Rives to Wed Winnie Burden in Lakewood
Miss Natica Rives announced engagement to Winnie P. Burden at Lakewood. Daughter of Mr and Mrs George W. Rives the bride to be, a New York society figure, will wed the son of Mr and Mrs James Burden. The couple confirmed the news after an automobile outing, with Winnie's brother Arthur Scott Burden connected to recent society nuptials.
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Maria Holmes Chambers
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
W. Albert Pease, Jr
Hempstead
Henry Stevenson Sweitzer
Pease
Meadow Brook Hunt
Sweltzer
Frederick Rodgers
Commodore Perry
Sweitzer
William G. Park
Allegheny
Elizabeth, Sweitner
Winnie” P. Burden
Lakewood
Washington Post
N. J
Natica Rives
George W. Rives
James Burden
Rayes
Mise Rives
Mrs Astor
Arthur Scott Burden
Cynthia Roche
Mina Rives
Will Receive Mrs Astor At Court In Next Presentation
London dispatch reports Queen Alexandra’s leniency toward divorced women at court for the upcoming presentation of Mrs Waldorf Astor formerly Nannie Shaw. Mrs Bingham, sister of Mrs Pauline Astor Apender, will present her, then Mrs Charles Dana Gibson’s Mrs Astor hosts a Cliveden party with cousins Miss Paul and Miss Wayne awaiting presentation. The duo travel to Paris for gowns and will appear on the Ambassador’s list.
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Washington Post
London
Queen Alexandra
Waldorf Astor
Nannie Shaw
Bingham
Pauline Astor Apender. Clay
Astor
Charles Dana Gibson
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Centaro
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Mercedes
Alfonso
Ma Ya Teresa
Grippe
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Mrs. Astor
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Chiffon
Messaline
Richard W. Henderson
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Enchre Club
Berg & Jewelers
Tanor
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Eleventh Street
V. D. Rosen
F St
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Coriwith and
B Streets
Rili-Daser
Hattie M. Shacklette
F Street
Evans’ Drug Store
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White House
Clifton
Old Colony Co
H St.n. W
Castelberg's
John F. Ellis & Co
Pa. Ave
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Brentano
Bold Ahett
Seetarr
TIEFF
Conliff
G. G. Cornwell & Son
Pennsylvania Ave
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