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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1915
Page
7
Michael's autumn exposition showcases Velvets, serges and crepe weaves with novelties in varied styles. Buying agents highlight well assorted selections and affordable prices with values at 00, 17.50, 20.00, 25.00 and 32.00.
A department exhibit features dresses designed for stout women, combining size and style with comfortable fit and reduced alteration costs. The designs adapt current trends to fuller figures, promising slim, graceful effects at moderate prices.
The advert urges personal corset fitting to ensure a proper silhouette. It promises expert fitters can alter a corset to match individual figures and invites customers new to fitting to start with a new corset. styles available include front or back face in over a hundred options, priced from $1.00 to $10.00.
The department highlights dress trimmings with newly added shimmering ribbons for girdles and new fur trimmings. A broad display of laces in wide and narrow widths is offered, described as unparalleled.
Among the novelties are fur trimmed kid belts in white brown and black at 75c each Silk Boeery in double colored stripes priced at 1.00 and triple combinations of tortoise shell frame mesa bags silk bags and other fitted hand bags from 1.50 to 10.00 Feather boa novelties in many colors from 1.50 to 10.00 Silver and gold vanity card cases made of cheap novelty rial with bevel mirror 35c
Our dress department gains strength daily and now enters the autumn exposition. Visitors may find carefully made dresses of today that promise to ease dressmaker cares, with styles selected to please all. The blend of Bate styles and quality offers satisfaction without extra premium, inviting attendance at the exposition.
As leaders in millinery this region awaits the announcement with pleasure. The express brings hundreds of pretty patterns foreign and American designs. Our work rooms stay busy for the seasonal rush. Hats trimmed with fur and matching materials are offered at $2.00 to $6.50, with other exclusive patterns up to $50.00.
Plaids and large stripes lead fall trends as we showcase a beautiful line of plaid silks and woolens plus solid colors in new intricate weaves. See our autumn display Monday.
Our fall wash goods selection is complete with ginghams Devonshire cloth plaid suitings and varieties suitable for school street and home wear.
A fragmented public notice-like text cites warnings about caution and danger, referencing a snake bite metaphor and a claim of serving Linton Spring water as pure. It reads as a stray promotional or cautionary fragment without clear connected facts or events.
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