Showing posts with label dresses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dresses. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2008

For Elderly Women

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1901 In the mixed Oxford suitings in dark gray and black are a number of different qualities that make up well in coat and skirt, and it is ...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Fashion Changes — Women Drift From Womanly Ideals

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1910 By Stella B. Ames The advent of the immodest gown came with the appearance of the peekaboo waists some five years ago and since then wo...
Monday, June 11, 2007

The Garden of Eden

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1911 Joking Around with the News Now we are told that the Garden of Eden was located at the North Pole. Possibly we shall learn also that Ad...

Save Lots of Money by Not Shaving

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1911 Wise Cracks in the News A Massachusetts octogenarian who has never shaved in his life, claims to have saved $24,000 in that way, but mo...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Smuggling in Bustles

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1888 It will soon be unsafe for a lady to go on board a steamboat adorned with the dorsal embellishment of the bustle. From its first appear...

Modesty of Slit Skirts Debated; New Fashions Give Sight to Blind

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1913 Daughters' Dress Care of Mothers Denver Pedagogue Says Parents Can Check X-ray Gowns and Slit Skirts on Girls DENVER, Aug. 30. — Su...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

When Women Should Drink

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1903 It Is Better If They Leave Ardent Spirits Alone That many society women drink ardent spirits, and sometimes to excess, is a well known ...

The Beautiful Frills of Fashion in Great Vogue

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1903 Many of the long evening gloves are inset with lace insertion. Colored laces are having great vogue, not only the laces dyed to match g...

Women Cannot Collect Damages If They Wear Long Skirts

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Chicago, 1903 Law Hitched to the Skirt Women must hold up their skirts and protect their gowns from threatening nails and sharp corners whil...