Extravagant Fashion House Promises Global Drapery Collection
An advertisement extols lavish attire and ornate home furnishings from multiple European and Asian sources. It touts gowns for debutantes, balls, weddings, and social events, with Parisian lace details, Brussels, and varied silks and linens, emphasizing luxury and extensive stock to meet every entertaining demand.
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Continent
Ireland
Scotland
Germany
France
Iengland
Austria
Bavaria
China
Japan
Superb Silks Show Largest American Imports in Fashion
Silk Department showcases premier American and direct import silk designs. Featuring Cyrano Glace and Chameleon, Hand-printed Crepe, Rajah, Chiffon Faille, Messaline Travita, Crepe Bengaline, Korean Silk, and chiffon taffeta. Second floor offers gala and street wear silks for weddings and receptions.
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Paris
Sarah Glace
Dress Goods Department Offers Silk and Wool Crepes and Broadcloths
A curated selection highlights Dainty Wools and Silk and Wool fabrics ideal for evening wear. Popular weaves include French Voiles Silk and Wool Crepe de Chine and Albatross. Broadcloths in multiple creams, grays, blues, and earth tones suit opera wraps and gowns.
Millinery Hair Ornaments In Evening Styles
Beautiful assortment of hair ornaments for evening wear imported and domestic. Includes gilt and silver butterflies, spangled black butterflies, bowknots, colored flowers, gold and silver roses and foliage for corsages. Mesa Hair Ornaments and Corsage Garniture made to match costume. 5 in floor Tenth st.
Neckwear Fashion Notes and Silk Stock Offerings
A profusion of neckwear items appears in this catalog style listing including Ostrich Feather Boas in fashionable colors Mara beat and Coque Boas and Muffs to match soft Chiffon Jabots in dainty effects and rich stocks with many varieties. Also a fine assortment of hand embroidered linens lace Swiss embroidery rich Persian Scarfs and Squares large lace collars and delicate Rufflings for necks sleeves and trims. Main fod st Pus Elegancies and American productions for the
Corset Department Offers Paris Style Finery and Girdles
Corset department displays French corsets the Sapphire Lily of France and Parame with expert design and manufacture. Features exclusive street and evening wear in satin, coutil, broche, embroideries and ribbons. Includes girdle corsets in satin ribbons and bust supporters for negligees. Third floor Eleventh St.
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France
Paris
Eleventh St
Fine Fans for Social Functions and Theatrical Uses
A refined display features Vernis Martin style and 16th to 17th century reproductions. Rich spangled fans with pearl or bone mounts, plain and inlaid. Hand-made lace fans with inlaid mountings and a large range of simpler varieties. Located at Matin floor F st for evening toilette finishing touches.
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Nieh
Vernis Martin
Social and personal dinner and luncheon hosts noted
Washington society notes describe two notable entertainments in honor of M. Funck Brentano and Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks. The Italian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor des Planches hosted a late evening reception for nearly 300 guests, with a luncheon earlier honoring M. Frielli Brentano. A French Embassy dinner followed with prominent attendees. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Morton hosted another dinner including government officials and society members. Invitations were issued for the Michener Mohun marriage on January 26 at the Michener residence.
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M. Funck-Brentano
Morton
Fairbanks
Col
Burr
Mayor Des Planches
Loes
Paris
Washington
Ferna
M. Frielli-Brentano
Mme. Jusserand
Funck-Brentano
Dea Planches
White
Lodge
Loomis
Russell
Cowles
Thomas Nelson Page
Henry James
Hobson
Merritt
George Vanderbilt
Secretary of the Navy
Reginald Huidekoper
Godfrey
Philadelphia
Wynne
Hull
Dayton
Foss
M. M. Parker
Bernard Green
Louis T. Michener
Scott C. Bone
Elizabeth Kean
Timmons
Nora Michener
Barry Mohun
Ninetsenih Street
Social notices at 1311 K Street and local receptions
Mrs Dixon wife of Representative Dixon of Montana and Mrs Garner wife of Representative Garner of Texas will not receive today but will be at home next Tuesday January 24 and February 7 at 1311 K Street from 3 to 6. Miss Maudlisbee back from abroad stays with Miss Alison Wilson at the Warragut. Miss Wilson at home Saturdays January 21 and 28. Mrs Roy and Miss Roy winter at 1901 I Street. Tea at Soldiers Sailors and Marines Club Saturday 3 to 6 social by Woman's Army and Navy League at 317 C Street NW. Reception committee includes Mrs Sternberg president and others. Mrs Willard Vandiver wife of Representative Vandiver will not receive today but will be at home on remaining Tuesdays in January. Mrs George W Prince will not be at home today but will receive January 2 on Thirteenth Street. Mr and Mrs Owen T Reeves Jr of New York visiting 165 Twenty-first Street. Lieut James Barbour Nalle has been spending a month with his parents.
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Miriam Bangs
Walter E. Hiiton
John Elfreth Watkins, Jr
Mie Fannie Bangs
B Froncis Saul
Hamilton
George T. Dearing
John Gill
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Church
Wynne
Howards. Nyman
Portner
Overstreet
Representative Overstreet
Portland
M. J. Colbert
Finness
E. Stevens Henry
Miss Henry
Wiliam Bailey Lamar
Representative Lamar
Florida
Shoreham
Dixon
Joseph M. Dixon
Montana
Garner
J. N. Garner
Texas
K Street
Maudlisbee
Alison Wilson
Warragut
Miss Wilson
Mrs. Roy
Miss Roy
I Street
Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines’ Club
Woman's Army and Navy League
C Street
Sternberg
League
Taft
Morton
Chaffee
G. F. Elliott
Willard Vandiver
Representative Vandiver
Missouri
George W. Prince
Thirteenth Street
Owen T. Reeves, Jr
New York
William S. Hellen
Twenty-first Street
James Barbour Nalle
Edmund Pendleton Nalle
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Brussels
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Lace Department
Duchesse
Bruges
Valenciennes
Chantilly
Duchesse d’Alencon
Venice
Oriental
Repousse Effects
Silk Department
Dress Goods Department
Millinery Department
F Street
En’s
Fst
G St
Eldredge
Tera
Woodward &’ Lothrop
Edward Burr
Johnston
Sharp
Biddle
Witchcock
Walker
Charles 5. Bromwell
Richard Hooker
Miss Nelson
Kansas City
Miss McCreary
Kentucky
Bromwell
Marguerite Cassini
Pauline Morton
Miss May
Marion Oliver
de Koven
Miss Cobb
Morgan- Will
Gaff
Miss Coudert
Mertiam
Walker-Martinezss Alexander
Robeson
le Bourgais
Des Portes
Miss Ames
Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw
Roosevelt
Aldrich
Elisha Dyer
Rhode Island
Penna, Ave
Berry & Whitmore CO
Iamonds
Berry & Whitmore Bidg
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Oreferce
Peverines
Bama
Lacy
Iowa
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Georgia
Smith
Trimble
Padgett
Tennessee
Hughes
West Virginia
Davis
Minnesota
Houston
Delaware
Fuller
Iinois
Kline
Pennsylvania
Gudger
North Carolina
Hopkine
Hill
Representative Hill
Connecticut
the Cochran
Charles G. Ayres
Farragut
Claude A. Swanson
Sixteenth Street
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
Philippines
Hev. J. FE
Violeta
Blackistone’s
Cor. Idth
Ifsts
Harris
Shafer Company Jewelers and Silversmiths
Pennsylvania Avenue
Shacklette
Ith St. N. W
London
Boston
Chris
Xander
Qld
D. Risen
St. S. E
Smoot, Coffer, & McCalley
B. H. Stinemetz & Son Co
Stinemetz
Knabe
WM. Knabe & CO
Congressional
Heat Atlantic
Gowan
Namsook
Chas. Berman
St. N. W
Lindsay Rubber
Mfg. Co. (Inc
the Sunday Post
John F. Ellis & Co
Pennsylvania Ave. N.W
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