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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1901
Page
5
Instructive guide for home dressmakers on proper tools and methods for waist and skirt construction. Emphasizes new materials, note on dress forms, and detailed steps for drafting waist pieces, featherbone support, lining choices, and finishing stitches. Includes tips on muslin and mercerized fabrics, cut widths, and shaping with gathers and boned seams.
In midwinter observations the writer critiques forthcoming summer wear. Highlights include brown cloth and silk tailor suits with heavy lace, white goods, lawns, Belfast fabrics in many designs and colors, cords, ginghams, organdies, foulardine, lace stripes, and silk cotton blends. Emphasis on linen and embroidery trends, gauging laundry costs and society tastes.
A garbled text fragment mentions mural, Rome, Vince Hacer and Phe ati eer mfeed desirux icine fa peters ate. It references polka dor font and a marvel printed site with fowl em de site. Fabric terms Satin striped grosgrain corded taffeta duchess appear, plus obscure codes.
A scan of a catalog-like feature details finger bowls in green or rose tint, English rock crystal emphasis, and accompanying plates. Describes fruit services with center platters, Austrian glass with gold decoration, mounted mirrors, bouillon cups with gold lace, almond dishes, sherbet cups, Italian plaques as wall decor, and an Empire gown with roses as Vogue-inspired fashion notes.
An old newspaper fragment describes an Empire Evening Gown with black crepe de chine and peau de soie, a watteau back, velvet corsage, jet beads, and jeweled coiffure. It also promotes One Minute Cough Cure for croup and throat troubles, naming Davis Dave Co and The Weiser Cyclery as advertisers.
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