Kate Greenaway Fashions Highlight Children in Tea Dress Era
A slice of early 20th century fashion notes Kate Greenaway styles for boys and girls. Describes gowns in figured batistes, lace inserts, and ruffles, with pink taffeta hats resembling firemen helmets, plus unique boy outfits with box-plaited skirts and pearl buttons. Also includes a scattered discussion on child punishment tied to health and behavior, urging tailored justice per offense.
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Utley Ares
Rose O'Neil
Kate Greenaway
Fashion in Gloves Across Cities and Cultures
The piece notes daytime gloves in London for well dressed women and Paris favoring evening bare hands. It describes morning wear with chamois or doeskin gloves, two buttoned gloves in white or biscuit, and full dress using suede. It praises biscuit suede as a new craze and comments on French looseness at the wrist as a fashionable trait.
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Barly
London
Paris
Sleeping Porch fad praised for healthful open-air sleep
The piece extols open-air sleeping on porches as a healthy craze. It urges starting children on sleeping porch sleep during hot weather and gradually adapting to cold, noting safety with proper shelter and rain protection. It advises all homes to utilize some porch for this purpose, and describes setup on urban brownstones.
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Fad
Willots table lamp lights up with willow turnishings
The vogue for willow turnishings continues, extending to chairs, settees, bookracks, and even candlesticks. The lamp illustrated is designed to be fitted for electric lights.
Tunics and Girdles in 1914 Fashion Fad
The piece notes tunics of net and lace edged with colored bands and belts, and describes gowns with bold back bows and tatters. It laments the lingerie styles of 1914, calling for a wake-up in fashion, while highlighting embroidery in color on light fabrics and blue needlework enhancing silhouettes.
The Importance of Crape in Summer Wear
The article notes crape eases summer dress and laundry work by reducing ironing. It advises using heavy lace to preserve shape, describes crape nightwear with wide patterns, and introduces one piece pajama styles. For children, crape outfits with lightweight lawn and embroidery are suggested.
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Houservife
Valenciénnes
Wicker demi johns set to light a seaside bungalow lamp
A couple of wicker covered demi johns are repurposed as lamp bases for a seashore bungalow. One only received a thorough cleaning before use, while the other was coated in brown enamel paint and fitted with a light.
Decorative Lamp Styles Describe Living Room Lighting
The article describes two lamp types in a brown and buff living space. One lamp with wicker shade and a Japanese openwork shade lined with yellow flowered chint will brighten the veranda from a wicker table by the window.
Turkish Towel Craft Ideas For Slippers And Travel Case
A damaged OCR fragment describes making slippers from a Turkish towel with toe knots and decorative touches such as French knots and a bow. It also mentions a travel case fashioned from Turkish toweling with pockets for toiletries, lined with rubber, and initials stitched in knots.
Laundry Guide for Sweaters Shrinks and Shapes Correctly
Practical wash and dry instructions to prevent sweater shrinkage and misshapen sleeves. Use warm soapy water, avoid rubbing, rinse in clean water with powder to keep wool soft, then shape by hand, place in a pillowcase, and air dry in sun. Also includes a brief note on a ladder accident and a language joke.
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Baby
Tips to Save Juice From Canned Fruit
Old cookbook note explains saving leftover canned fruit juice. Suggests using juice in pudding sauce by adding lemon for balance, adjusting sugar, diluting if needed, and thickening with flour and water to form a dessert sauce. Includes guidance for cottage bread puddings and similar dishes.
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Batiste
Kate
Demijohns
Tooty
London Standard
Guts
Webster
Thandek Fs
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