Paris Fashion Notes Highlight White Coats and Simple Gowns
Notes from Paris describe the Parisienne wardrobe emphasizing white pique and white alpaca coats for the automobile era. Simple white spotted muslin gowns with plumeus appear on the Avenue des Acacias, paillette parasols trend, and Rue de la Paix shops showcase a cerise taffeta carriage wrap with a contrasting trim. Coiffures remain low and neat, with mousseline desoles and taffeta favored at Chantilly this year.
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Rue de la Paix
Women’s Linen Raglans Ad Offerings and Prices
An advertisement describes idealized raglans with double breasted or single fronts and varied backs and sleeves. Materials include Holland linen mohair and taffeta with Paris influence. Travel wear and sun protection noted. prices range from six to one hundred dollars for linen mohair silk and taffeta options.
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Holland
Paris
Original Life sketches on third floor at Pen and Ink
A selection of signed pen and ink sketches from Life magazine by artists Gibson Parker Gilbert Jacobs Sullivant Blashfield Johnson Newell Sprague Fisher Hanna Kemball Schrenck Werner Cushing and others is displayed on the third floor. Reduced from 5.50 to 2.50 for unframed black taffeta waists and percnline fabrics offered in limited quantities with sizes varying.
Women's Summer Dresses Dominate Chestnut Street Retail Scene
Summer heat boosts demand for ready made dresses described as pretty and cool. The ad touts lawn and pique fabrics with prices from 3.50 to 20, outlining striped shirtwaist bodices, flounced skirts, and a variety of cottons and lawn options as ideal morning wear and feminine fashion.
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Chestnut Street
Clearance of Parasols and Swimwear Prices
Auctionlike sale notes clearance of parasols from various lots with standard and couture fabrics. It lists price reductions from 75 cents to 25 dollars for parasols and coats, plus women’s shirts and skirts, bath suits for girls aged four to eighteen, fabrics like mohair and sateen, and towels priced 10 to 25 cents, highlighting comfort and material quality.
Shakespeare Complete Works offered at $1.50 in pocket editions
Brainerd and Armstrong Co hosts a silk worm exhibition in the cross aisle as Philadelphia showcases a low price complete edition of Shakespeare’s works. The ad notes twelve volumes, Dyce edition with glossary, ideal for travel. Food menus list beefsteak, Hamburg cream, muffins morning and cream fruit, sponge cake, bread in the afternoon.
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Alexander Dyce
Shakespeare
Brainerd and Armstrong Co
Philadelphia
Summer sale of muslin underclothes on second floor
A paged advertisement promoting a summer sale of muslin undergarments. Corset covers and chemises priced from 25 to 75 cents, petticoats at 3.25 dollars and other styles from 1 to 2 dollars. Drawers, nightgowns, and gowns offered in cambric and nainsook with lace, embroidery, and ruffles.
Paris Lingerie At Half Price In French Room
Wrappers dressing sacques chemises corset covers and night gowns offered at half price. Most items are a little soiled or mussed but washable to restore appearance. Women who favor Paris lingerie can buy cheaply this season with minimal effort to refresh.
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Paris
Summer Sale of Notions in Frugal Price Ranges
Local advertisement lists notional items at cut rates including corset hose supporters ten cents per pair, cotton corset lacers four cents per dozen, bias velveteen binding, sewing notions, and small hardware priced from one to twenty-five cents. Details cover threads, oils, pins, tapes, and dress shields with emphasis on low prices.
40 000 Yards of Summer Silks Now Available at Half Price
A dealer offers 40 000 yards of summer silks at about half price. The stock includes twisted silks 27 inches wide in black and white designs, foulards 24 inches wide in black and colors, and white and black on rose and cadet blue variants. Japanese wash silks 32¢ to 50¢ with broad color ranges. fabrics suitable for shirtwaists and sarah-like twill wear.
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Sarah
Campbell Pianos At Wanamaker Store Spark Interest
The third floor showroom on Chestnut Street reports strong demand for Campbell pianos priced at 185 dollars versus higher club options. Buyers favor maker names and the Wanamaker payment plan with 10 dollars down and monthly sums, abandoning generic club labels.
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Chestnut Street
Wanamaker
Gingham selection shines with mercerized sheen
A wide range of ginghams from 37 to 45 cents per yard is offered at 25 cents. Fancy ginghams feature mercerized threads in varied patterns, with lace stripes and bordered blocks, creating a bright, silk like gleam. The fabrics are described as very attractive for the price.
Summer Lace Sale Offers Inexpensive Fine Embroidered Edgings
Summer sale at the main aisle and counters features fine and beautiful laces insertions and all overs at one third to half price. Escurial appliques are priced higher yet described as finest seen. Butter valenciennes laces sell fast, heavy Oriental and Arabian insertions and edgings are heavily discounted, perfect for blouses and dresses with varied lace stripes and cords.
Exquisitely printed foulard fabrics described as Mercerized Foulard
The description highlights 35c and 20c mercerized foulard prints. It notes some designs are among the prettiest, printed on fine sheer cotton with a silklike glint, making them hard to distinguish from foulard silks. The print is positioned northwest of center.
Novelty Cottons Sale Offers Deep Discounts on Light Fabrics
A newspaper ad touts reductions on novelty cottons and linens, with prices cut from $1.50 to 75 cents and other fabrics listed at $7.25, $7.50, and $2. The copy highlights lace plaid mercerized gingham in multiple colors, corded and ribbon plaids, striped poplin, cluster stripe merchandizing, and melange cotton duck. It notes Irish linen dress goods at half price and promotes the lot as a bargain left by an importer after full-price orders.
Baby Dresses and Sunbonnets
Second floor displays feature sunbonnets in plain lawn with embroidered cords and flounces in blue pink and white. Little Dresden lawn bonnets follow same style. Fits for hot days priced at 25c. Also guimpe style dresses in gingham and lawn for two to four year olds, previously 1.50 to 5, now 7c to 2.50. Sailor suits in percale with white duck trim offered in sizes 3 and 4 at 1.0.
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Dresden
Oriental Rugs Reduced a Third on Third Floor
A sale offers Kazak and Mosul rugs at one third off with many sizes and colors. Additional discounts apply to Swiss curtains, lace curtains, and Irish paint curtains, with reduced prices ideal for summer homes and hotels.
Rockers for Half Summer Furniture Sale Bargains
Sale promotes third off on summer furniture including oak and mahogany rockers with leather and velour upholstery. Items feature birch frames and glass cloth seats, with chair prices reduced from various higher to lower amounts across multiple models, emphasizing one of a kind stock and bulk discounts.
Still Better Clothing News for Men Price Sale
The market street store trims prices on 20 dollar suits to eight fifty, moving remaining thousand-dollar stock into an eight fifty lot. Over a hundred dark oxford cheviots and others in cheviot cassimere and worsted, summer weight and half lined, with hand shaped collars and lapels from regular makers. A line of fifteen dollar suits is partly sold, but the store vows no price increases.
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Market Street
Chestnut Street
Heywood Go Carts for Less Than Half
Basement sale offers last year’s Heywood go carts at deep discounts. Stationary models $7, previously $18. Fancy reed body with parasol $5.50, down from $13.50. Reed body carts with green enamel gear and cane seats $5.50. Black sleeping go cars $5 to $28. Baby coaches $5.50 to $50. Baby buck boards $7.50 to $18.
Summer sale items on linens and clothing
A broad summer sale lists pillow cases from 9 to 13 cents and bolster cases up to 45 cents. Hemstitched sets, plain sheets, and linen goods feature modest prices. Men’s and boys’ shirts, imported and domestic styles, range from one to ten dollars, with silk and batiste options highlighted.
Market Street Boys Suits Sale and Canning Demonstration
An Opportunity for Boys 8 to 16 years at Market Street offers double-breasted and vest suits marked down today, with prices from $4.50 to $8.50 and up to $16 for select styles. Also advertised is a demonstration on proper canning using the Mudge canner, showing how strawberries are preserved by steaming and sterilizing, with canners priced from $2.25 to $9 depending on size and finish.
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Market Street
Women's $2 Oxfords for $1.40 And Other Shoes
Fresh stock of five thousand oxfords in tan Russia calf-skin and black kidskin with varied toe shapes and widths. Shoes priced deep below usual levels, including $2.85 to $7.70 ranges with many items labeled as samples or regular lines, spanning men women and children.
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Russia
Kidskin and
Tan Russia
Zek
Ee Alberts
Taber Widen
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