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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop promotes third floor ready-to-wear garments and furnishings for women, misses, girls, boys, and babies. It highlights dresses waists and wraps, furs, children's coats, party frocks, lingerie, robes, negligees, shoes, coats, and complete outfits as practical and gift ready with emphasis on elegance and variety for the season.
A splendid display features desirable fur varieties for holiday gifting and personal use. Highlights include a Russian Sable Set priced at 500.00 and baby fur items at 1.50, with a wide range of shapes and styles available.
Mink remains the season’s top fur with wide appeal for all ages. Manufacturers promote stylish effects for young women and matrons. The shop offers a large, complete selection of stylish furs with Squirrel furs and muffs priced from 10.00 to 30.00 each.
A local listing promotes an extensive display of children's fur sets in White Thibet White Lamb White Coney White Angora and dark furs ideal for the little folk. The store highlights new and choice pieces crafted for children and misses with a focus on quality and selection.
Winter garment sale lists heavy heavy black cheviot jackets at 10.00 each and satin lined options. Winton coats in heavy chevrats and blends, with prices 12.50 to 15.00. Tan covert cloth and leather-backed jackets described as medium weight, satin lined, with strapped seams and varied lengths.
Superb collection in flannel albatross silk and other fabrics in styles with back shaping lace trim neat embroidery and hand work. Includes albatross and flannel dressing sacques with prices from 4 50 to 18 00 and a new line of negligees in albatross flannel and silk boxed for Xmas gifts. Third floor Eleventh st.
A catalog shows carefully selected corsets foreign and domestic with Paris novelties. Prices reach 25 dollars and sets include corsets, hose supporters, and silk laces. Various styles with elastics and matching laces are advertised, along with heart-shaped pads and Valenciennette lace options. Third floor eleventh at 3.
A large holiday assortment of boys and youth apparel is advertised with overcoats in black and Oxford gray, doublebreasted suits, sailor blouse suits, and knit wear. Prices span from $1 to $8.75, highlighting special values in overcoats, suits, shirts, pajamas, and slippers, with a focus on durable tweeds, serge, and cheviots and a third-floor display on Tenth Street.
Thoughtful givers find practical coats for children in the third floor ready-to-wear department. Remaining coats selected by Mrs. Evans are reduced, featuring broadcloth, fur, velvet, cheviot, and box coats in brown, tan, red, and blue. Also offered are ribbon candy and assorted confections, with deliveries for out-of-town points and early inspection encouraged.
A newspaper ad promoting Silk Petticoats at half price and a new silk petticoat line priced at 3.95 and 5.00. It highlights taffeta fabric, full cuts, triple ruffle designs, and color options including black plum brown and blue. Also advertised are Christmas aprons in varied styles and prices, with lawn materials and lace trims.
A catalog of Imported art pieces and bric a brac offered for Xmas gifts. It lists bronze and marble statuettes electrials lamps clocks vases porcelain and silver novelties with prices from 0.50 to 93.50 across categories such as Royal Nippon Satsuma Limoges and Kircha wares. Items include pedestals cabinets lamps frames and plaques with many one of a kind pieces in varied finishes.
Pretty Table Covers presents a wide array of tapestry table linens in various sizes and prices. Featured bed coverings claim added room charm and utility with a Fine English Bobbinette Bed Set including spread and bolster cover, richly trimmed and marked one third off. Fourth floor PRETTY Coverings store displays the collection.
A local ad extols sewing machines as practical and ornamental gifts. It touts oak wood cases from 18 dollars to 40 dollars for desk cabinet models, plus hand machines priced 5, 8 50, 10 50, and 13 50, presenting them as ideal Christmas presents for housewives.
A local shop displays leather items blending utility and ornament including envelope bags leather pocketbooks cases and music rolls. Highlights include leather jewel boxes priced from 1.25 to 18.00 with the monitor bag at 18.00 and items on the main floor at Eleventh Street.
Absolutely noth Ring that will make a more desirable or entertaining or useful or instructive gift than a Kodak or Camera. For boy girl man or woman its gift fitness is the same and will be remembered. No. 1 Brownie Kodak $1 No. 2 Brownie Kodak $2 Folding Pocket Brownie Kodaks $5 Main floor Tenth st.
Decorative screens provide beauty and function, curbing drafts and shielding corners and doors. The collection spans tiny fire screens to large creations, featuring grave, humorous, historical, Gibson studies, landscapes, marines, and home scenes. A Mozart screen stands in rich tapestry.
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