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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1906
Page
14
The store offers a January sale of muslin underwear with half price on many items. Domestic goods feature quality materials and American factories, while imported Paris line samples showcase hand embroideries and lace. Prices range from 25 cent corset covers to luxury pieces, with a broad array of muslin skirts and decorative finishes.
An 19th century style listing describes muslin, cambric, and nainsook drawers and gowns with various trims. Prices range from about $1.00 to $3.50 for garments with lace embroidery ruffles and hemstitched details. The ad highlights neck styles including high, low, and chemise options and notes trim quality like lace, embroidery, and ribbons.
Social notices detail Vice President Fairbanks hosting a German dinner party at the New Willard with 150 guests including ten prominent young married men and four couples invited by subscribers. Favors feature holly decor, red sashes, and parrot head accents. the event begins at 10:30 PM with supper at 12:30 and a cotillion for fifty couples to follow.
Variety of chemises trimmed with embroidery lace and ribbon in Nainsook and Valenciennes styles. Prices range from 0.75 to 2.75 dollars.
A fragment listing infant and children’s clothing items including muslin gowns slips and drawers with ruffles embroidery and lace. Mentions various sizes from infancy to age eight with prices around 25 to 50 cents and notes on styles such as Hubbard nainsook and cambric waists with two rows of buttons.
A Washington hostess list from New Year’s night reveals guests including Hon J. M. Thorne and families, Col. Clarence Clark Hamlin and wife en route to Naples, and many others at receptions and dinners. Notices include engagements of Katharine Belle Roberts and Robert Earle Broughton Hall, and travel plans of Mrs. George A Myers for a New York wedding.
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