[image: sketches of five women in, you know, outfits.]

From left to right:

Nothing made of duvetyn can fail to be becoming. From the scarf collar of this beige duvetyn topcoat above, folding high about the throat, to the hem, every line is exactly as it should be.

Especially for the slender girl is this black taffeta daytime dress at left with the unusual skirt treatment.

The cossack or tunic below is of white voile stitched in yellow. It would be equally good in Georgette crepe.

Equally good in linen would be the frock at right, here designed of dotted blue foulard, with narrow underskirt.

Taffeta makes an idea summer wrap. The coat at right above, of rose-colored taffeta with cool gray lining, [illegible] in graceful folds about the fortunate weare, with a high collar [illegible].

From Good Housekeeping, June 1919.

[image: a full page illustration of people in a restaurant, with a wiman in a coat and hat at center, a young man behind her at left, and a waiter pulling out a chair at right.]

From Good Housekeeping, July 1919.

“Letty’s Hill to Understanding”, by Grace Allen. Illustrated by Maurice L. Bower.

Letty is the eldest of kind of a lot of kids, and her mother is dead. This, I suppose, is the story of her struggle not to become a drudge. Kathleen Norris compared it to Pollyanna, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Molly Make-Believe (yes, people used to get that Eleanor Hallowell Abbot is awesome) and I guess Kathleen Norris wasn’t a bad person to get a blurb from.

part 1 & part 2

No one’s ads are as good as Mina Taylor’s.