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October 2016
Wagons West Chronicles
Edited By
Sunny Livesay
IT DAZZLES THE EYE
Our editor at work.
NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS
IN FORTY-TWO SHADES
Yet Fashion’s Attempts to Adorn
Lovely Woman Are Like
Sounding Brass and Tinkling
Cymbal- Still They Must Be In
the Latest Style.
April 17, 1894, Daily Times, El
Paso, Texas — I had thought that
human ingenuity could not
invent anything new in the way of
crepons, but today I find an
entirely new lot of designs and
effects. There are dimpled silk
crepons, and how pretty they are
one has but to think of the dimples on baby’s cheeks to know.
These are soft and have a delicate
surface that with every movement
breaks into dimples. One watches it in delighted wonder.
Nothing can be prettier in woven
goods. Nothing aside from the
dimpled crepon can surpass it
except a baby’s pink, round
cheek.
Spring Is Here.
There is another crepon of
wool warp and silk woof. This
drapes in a manner to delight the
soul of an artist. There are all
silk crepons, but I do not think
them quite as pretty as those having an added mixture of wool.
There are all wool and cotton crepons. To see so many styles and
The Singing Cowgirl 1938 A singing rancher (Dorothy Page)
and her friend (David O'Brien) shield an orphan from
gold-land grabbers
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turn to the simplicity of the
babies. Nothing is too fine and
soft for them. Hand sewing is
preferred for the pretty ones.
Nainsook and soft linen lawns are
the proper material.
Less
embroidery is on their clothes
and more hemstitching and
featherstitching. The hems are
made about three inches deep
and are hemstitched, sometimes
in a fancy openwork pattern half
an inch deep. Bows of the same
washable material are set on for
trimming in preference to ribbon. Nearly all the slips are mad