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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1915
Page
9
Our stock and shoppers have crowded the section prompting a doubling of space for the department. The expansive assortments include wardrobes and waists, with the large display featuring dresses priced at 14 95 for the season.
Advertises Kayser silk hose with 65 spring shades priced at 1 dollar per pair. Highlights features such as fine thread silk, four inch tops, garter hems, durable toes and heels. Also promotes Kayser but-i-not and glove silk hosiery with prices and color options, plus clocked silk hosiery in black or white. First Fleet.
A shoe section highlights models priced at $3.95 featuring a handcrafted look and exclusive design. The copy notes these shapes imitate custom making, offering a distinct appearance not common in affordable footwear.
The material offers the same service and appearance as linen and fills an important niche for inexpensive clothing. It comes in thirty four inch width and colors plum pink gold ald rose light and Copenhagen blue, priced at 20 cents per yard.
Textile store advertises ready for use fabrics including 12 yard bolts, dotted Swiss at 25 cents per yard, dotted crepes 29 cents, ratine suiting 65 cents per yard, and English longcloth 1.19 per yard. Notes Thursday to Saturday sales and bolt quantities.
New season brings two hat groups with prices at five and seven fifty. Shepherdess shapes and smart trimmed styles debut while untrimmed hats sell at 1 45, 1 95 and 2 50 in Shepherdess Chin-Chin and Tipperary effects at Third Moor.
Odds and ends and discontinued corset numbers reduced to 50 cents to 4. Nearly all sizes available in models from Redfern Wanner 8 Nadia Royal Duchess and others. Models are good and offer a fine opportunity for half price savings on corsets for street and house wear.
An odd lot of 50c pieces is mixed with specially priced 23c items. 12-karat solid gold topsi guaranteed for ten years. Collar sets in circle and bar designs with bright Roman finish, horse shoe and lingerie clasps. Pretty designs serve same purpose as pins at any price. Choice, 25c.
Silk lisle combination suits in soft pink with sleeveless low neck and wide knee for summer wear. Sold at $1 per suit, with children’s sizes 6 to 14 years at 50 cents. Features include shelf stitching perspiration shields and lace trim. Sold in muslin underwear style with variations in child sizes.
Retailers advertise a sale on sheets damask towels and bed linens. Wolfson Special Sheets 81x108 inches priced at 79 cents. Pepperell pillow cases 16 cents. 72 inch damask yardage 50 cents. bath towels 19 cents. Marseilles spreads offered at 3.50 and 2.00 for smaller sizes. Huck towels seven cents each or 79 cents per dozen.
A list of low priced accessories and fabrics offered at Shamrock Town includes gloves in gray sand and putty shades at 1, black white tan and brown with white trimmings, glace kid 2 clasp at 1, washabi gloves 50c, short white natural and black chamoisette gloves with white embroidered hark, pearl ear screws 50c set in four sizes, new neckwear at 25c with organdie vests and ruches, soutache braid 12 yards for 1 cent, military braid 10c per yard, sand and putty veil 50c to 1, sand and Belgian blue ribbons, linen handkerchiefs with Armenian lace edges 15c and crepe de chine handkerchiefs at 25c. First Floor
Public approval by San Antonio women grows as tailored suits priced at 14.75, 19.75 and 25 attract rapid purchases. A New York buyer ***************** sending another assortment of new styles, promising instant appeal and unusual quality for fashionable women.
A new assortment of crepe de chine undergarments in white and delicate shades goes on sale with low prices. Night robes priced at 3.05 and 4.00, bear combinations 2.50 and 3.95, corset covers from 1.00 to 1.95.
Inspect the silk section on the second floor showcasing a wide range of spring silks. Highlights include Tancy Swivel Silks at 1.00 per yard and vivid crepes, charmeuse, taffetas, nets, and silk brocades priced from 39 cents to 2 dollars per yard. The shop emphasizes clear daylight for easy selection and value.
Delicately scented talcum in large one pound cans offered at 7 cents from a regular 15 cents. Toilet soap boxes priced 10 cents for three cakes rose carnation violet and buttermilk. Face powder sale at 25 25 and 23 9 cents as stock is cleared with half price packing change. Florence Ivory soap boxes 18 cents, usually 25 cents, blemished but usable.
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