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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
5
A local dressmaker invites women who sew to a display showing suits and dresses with matching fabrics trimming and buttons. The salesman will calculate total costs from patterns to linings, promising a helpful event for shoppers.
Incomplete text from an old newspaper page shows scattered references to a meeting or hearing, names such as Henry and Meagher appear amid garbled lines. The legibility is poor, with many broken words and inserted brackets, making a precise event or outcome unclear.
In shop windows and displays, a variety of dress and suit fabrics attract attention. Haske UMEDA Pant De Laine Creponette Attoman Cloth and Broad Cloth are highlighted as fashionable options for tailored suits and skirts. Plain colored tunte antlers and diverse weaves offer a wide range of styles for consumers.
The article notes rapid adoption of a basque waistline lowering to a Moyen Age stance and a tighter rose fitting. Skirts grow long and very full over short underskirts while tunics shorten. The fashion forward woman quickly seizes new styles, such as the russe tunic, from dressmakers.
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