While perusing ProQuest’s free trial of the Vogue Archive that unfortunately ended Feb 16, I came across a column called “Haphazard Jottings” that seems to have run from the magazine’s earliest days in the 1890s through the first third of the twentieth century (I can’t date it for sure now that the archive is closed, as it doesn’t even come up in Reader’s Guide Retrospective). It seems to have been a column recapping current events and topics that had been discussed in other publications, as well as subjects of interest to the Vogue writers and editors. One such column discussed the “curious effect … noticeable in connection with the smart little hat rolled up on each side, when it is worn tipped over the eyes, and with a black lace veil showing heavily woven large dots.” Apparently, it “vulgarizes every woman who wears it”! “It is not that the wearers look dowdy, they look declasse.” Ouch.
It occurred to me what a great blog title “Haphazard Jottings” is, so I am borrowing it, all credit in this case due to Vogue, although a Google search brings up 541 other uses of the term from a variety of sources.
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Haphazard jottings. (1897, Feb 25). Vogue, 9(8), p.116. Retrieved February 14, 2012, from ProQuest.
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