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A GREAT TRADITION

... extravagance of, for example, contem porary Dresden or Sevres. Where other potters took as their models the makebelieve of the fashionable painter the cupids, the floral decoration, the gods and goddesses, the insincere humbug of courts the Danish potter modelled ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 921 | Page: 72 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMEN IN THE NEWS: Positive Personal Paragraphs on Pleasantly Pertinent People

... blue-stocking. Throughout the craze for shorn locks Lady Sybil has gone scathless and long-haired. The reason is not aversion to fashion but devotion to caravans. Among the pakka caravanners, women have their hair cut short foV only two reasons one, because they ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT: Fashion's fancies of the moment

... MORNING, NOG! AND NIGH' Fashion's fancies of the moment Perfectly practical and marvel lously decorative is this two-piect shantung bathing suit. It may fe seen in the salons of DebenhaW and Freebody, Wigmore Street, W Varied are the alli ances in the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

Three Knots

... crime to pay more, and a grave risk to pay less than the THREE KNOTS price.' British Throughout 3/1 1 Per Pair Seamed with fashioned marks or seam less H O S I E FLY O F QU AL I T Y >8 >l£ DAVENPORT LTD. Leek, Staffs. First English Makers of Artificial ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 115 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

MY FACE IS MY FORTUNE

... splendour of the temporarily, frequently contain atropine, W1 familiar for its purpose of distending- the nr (in most becoming fashion for the purpose examination, has a serious menace to the coi tution, if used without medical supervision. The gentleness of ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 245 | Page: 64 | Tags: Photographs 

OTHER DAYS, OTHER FASHIONS: The Marchioness of Headfort

... OTHER DAYS, OTHER FASHIONS No. 6 The Marchioness of Headfort When feathers were in fashion and hats were erections rather than confections. A photograph of Lady Headfort taken at a sale organised by the Duchess of Sutherland at Staf ford House in 1909 ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 127 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

CONFETTI

... hardly anyone there vflio bore the remotest resemblance to a nut SCOTLAND is always up-to-date from the point of view of the fashionable dressmaker, but there is no truth in the rumour that kilts are to be wrorn shorter this year. WT^' English batting wants ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

PARIS PARADES, PARTIES AND PLAIDS: The ubiquity of tartan, the elaboration of evening frocks and the ..

... is a platitude, but platitudes are being revived, I am told, like old-fashioned dresses. Anyway, the French dressmakers now take Scotland into consideration, and prepare some fashions which they fondly imagine will be worn on the moors. Fictitious plaids ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1774 | Page: 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE

... What woman will be able to resist the call of the moor and the whistle of the Flying Scotsman when the versatility of modern fashion provides her with so many ways of looking her best en voyage WE may live for to-day, but we must shop for to-morrow. Summer ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 624 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Pettigrew & Stephens Ltd

... surgical elastic. sibre. Strong diaphragm Up to 36 in. Price 55/- support and correct boning at back, giving the desired fashionable line. Price 2 The Other Woman-- who radiates chic, ease and grace included to give greater neatness, has chosen her corsets ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 224 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

ON OLD BOXES IN GENERAL, AND TRUNKS IN PARTICULAR: Some chests and coffers of past times

... advent of more luxurious fashions gradually ousted the travelling trunk from its place as an article of furniture, and after a journey's end it was banishedignominiously to the lumber room. In Southern Europe, however, fashions died hard, and the bahu ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1926
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1606 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs