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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1919
Page
2
Bon Marche advertises store hours from 10 A M to 6 P M with festive language urging customers to wreath their faces with smiles and fill homes with holly. It promotes the idea that gifts tied to kindness and thought are true Christmas presents and invites shoppers to seek help in choosing tokens.
The ad promotes a Christmas blouse priced at 5.75 with a range of fashionable colors and the latest styles for shoppers.
A Bon Marche display highlights Christmas blouses in flesh and white, vivid costume colors, and crepe de chine options. Trim details include Wallace chenille embroidery and net frills with jabot fronts or round necklines. Priced around $5.75 on the second floor.
Santa awaits downtown at the Bon Marche with plush Teddy Bears priced at 3.00 and a white dog toy at 3.25. Also offered are ball bearing roller skates 3.50, a fiber board drum 2.00, Pollyanna game 1.00, Auto Truck 1.00, and a 61 inch spiral tower Down and Out 1.00.
A 16 inch bald baby doll with a composition body and bisque head. It features moving eyes, bent arms and legs, and is described as very light in weight. Priced at 4.25.
A line ad offers a set of nine lead soldiers with a captain on horseback a tent and flag and a rubber cork pop gun priced at 1 75. Described as fun for the future general from Toyland Abasement Union Street side.
Handsome velour dresses arrive in six brown taupe navy Pekin sand and other desirable colors. The new styles offer warm comfort for winter wardrobes and feature rich textures and versatile tones.
They are changeable taffeta gowns in evening shades with metallic flower trims. Slightly soiled and mussed, but dry cleaning will restore their original beauty. Sizes range from 16 to 36.
Readable listing notes two pom pom styled slippers with padded elk soles, a ribbon run version, and a fur trimmed Juliet style with leather soles. Available in pink, light blue and red, sizes six to two.
Dressy blouses of silk crepe de Chine or Georgette with lace edgings pin tucks and pearl buttons. Trimmed with embroidery and hemstitching. Available in white flesh navy emerald taupe trench blue sizes 36 to 46. Price six ninety five.
Advertises women’s white kid gloves with full pique stitching and embroidered backs priced at 1.49. Gloves come in one or two clasp styles and are offered in sizes from 51 to 71 percent.
In a new shopping booth area guests are invited to explore Hankie Shanty on the upper main floor. The display features a roofed stand and white “hankies” in varied styles from children's prints to Madeira embroidered squares. The festive kiosk rises above red decorations, inviting holiday shoppers opening with a snowy motif.
Baby care items are offered in Christmas gift boxes on the main floor. Brush sets for babies range from 3 to 5 pieces priced 75 cents to 4 95. Bibs include toweling droolers and embroidered silk or linen styles priced up to 1 95. Bath sets with wash cloths and towels cost 75 cents to 3 50. BABY Booth Upper Main Floor.
Silver Bar Pin brightens a dark dress and heart for Christmas at Three dollars. Bluebirds hand painted on a Pyramin ivory Manicure Set ready to ship in a holiday box for seven fifty. Colonial Bon Bon Jar with gold top priced three dollars. Glove Silk Vest flesh color pale blue with bodice bands four dollars. Silk Underwear section listed on Upper Main Floor.
Holly covered paper bright tinselly string and cheerful stickers are available to wrap gifts this holiday season. The shop invites customers to select wrapping materials that convey a festive message. Christmas Seals and Paper on the second floor.
High Cut Tan Shoes for Children in light blue red or dark blue with padded soles and animal designs. Infant and toddler slippers including felt Juliets moccasins and corduroy slippers priced from 90 cents to 3 dollars. Sizes span infant to youth with multiple color options. Second floor location noted.
Practical mothers welcome these coats found in all winter colors and weights. Fully lined sizes 8 to 14 years with fur or convertible self collars. Fine tailoring and price range from 10.00 to 22.50. Daughter Shop second floor The Bon Marche.
A sale listing offers floor lamps with solid mahogany stands priced from 15 to 50 dollars and matching silk lamp shades 15 to 75 dollars. Table lamps with mahogany stands and two sockets range 7 to 13 dollars, silk shades 7 to 10 dollars. Bedroom lamp stands 3 to 5 dollars and silk shades 2 to 6 dollars.
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