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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1908
Page
29
Arrivals announce a complete assortment of Women's Ready to Wear garments including tailored suits evening gowns lingerie blouses coats skirts and raincoats. The selection features English worsted and serge suits in spring colors with new models plaited skirts and silk lined coats.
New lace braid coats are described as very smart and to be worn over summer gowns. Styles include semifitting and box models in colors black brown white and pongee.
Silk Princess Dresses feature a front close with large silk buttons and a yoke enhanced by German valenciennes and baby Trish laces. Made of chiffon taffeta in black, Copenhagen, and navy, with Vanlard styles offering dotted shower fabrics, wide lace, and net sleeve ruffles in navy, Copenhagen blue, brown.
Washington society hosts and guests populate a busy social diary. Excerpts note Mrs Root's return, Mrs Taft's luncheon, engagements of Miss Metzger and Mr Van Auten, dinners for ambassadors, and multiple visits by Grant and Dallam families. Tables, boxes, and performances highlight diplomatic and cultural events around the capital.
Paris social columns report creditors of the Duc de Chaulnes seeking payment with American funds on his honeymoon. Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts says he will pay his own debts, not through Shonts, while defending the duke against extortionate demands. The piece also covers upcoming New York Waldorf dinner for Mrs. Humphry Ward, the Playgrounds Association event, and remarks on the Duke and Duchess of Westminster planning a summer in America with trips to Newport and possible Canadian ventures.
A report of Philadelphia society figures sketching at a charity concert in Bellevue Stratford and a vivid account of Prince Helene de Sagan’s New York visit. The Astor brothers John Jacob and William Waldorf are praised for sports and demeanor while de Sagan critiques American drink culture and shares cognac tasting routines with reporters. Notable social scenes unfold at Anchorage in Fairmount Park and at Shaffer's displaying spring flowers.
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