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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1906
Page
9
A grand exhibition accompanies a remarkable dressmaking sale featuring white, black, and gray materials. Wool fabrics display at 49c per yard and $1.49 yard for double width options. Silks include 89c chiffon taffeta and 69c homespun pongee. The collection aims to satisfy all tastes.
A list of dress materials and fabrics with widths and prices. Items include White, Black, and Gray goods such as Panama cloth, chiffons, silks, laces, laces, linens, and wool blends. Mentions Lupin's make, By, Nun's Veiling, and various widths from 20 to 64 inches, with prices ranging from 12.5 to $1.25 per yard.
A fragmented catalog listing women’s dress accessories with items like white and gold braid trimmings plain and embroidered, trimmings for vestings, Persian trimmings, fall braid, openwork buckram, fancy buttons and a range of widths and prices. Includes numerous color references and fabric coordination notes.
In a bustling store display, readers are invited to explore a wide range of laces from 418 inches wide to 45 inches, including Chantilly and Embroidered varieties, plus numerous ribbons in silk, mesaline, and taffeta. Prices range from under a quarter to a few dollars per yard, with emphasis on patterns, widths, and new spring shades to attract shoppers to the corner first floor display.
Classified style ad notes a price offer for C pairs with options of 20 cents per pair at seven cents each or four pairs for 25 cents, presenting a small sales pitch for bulk purchase.
The Palais Royal announces an annual sale showcasing Nations shields at four for 25 cents, replacing standard 16 to 26 cent prices. The deal promises guaranteed quality with prominent makers’ names, plus a wide array of discounted sewing notions and accessories from silk to needles.
Model Corsets priced at 1.89 lure buyers with French and Franco American styles. The collection includes Fasso La Premiere P. D. Bon Ton and I. C. Corsets. Contrast with $5 to $10 corsets at 1.80 to 1.80? Noted as a rare yearly bargain. act quickly.
The Art Department showcases embroidered robes and accessories as the season’s fad. Hand embroidered robes, pure linen options in white and pastels, with prices from $3.68 to $12.98, plus Swiss garments and accented details, touted as original patterns offered below usual retail.
A catalog style listing notes suits priced at 30 and 35 dollars and a 25 dollar value on samples. It describes various fabrics such as shrunk cloth Panama broad cloth and fancies with Eton pony box front and tight fitting styles. Tailored and fancy vests braid trimming pleated fronts and circular gored skirts are included. Also advertised are white waist offerings marked 1.98 for 3 to 4 dollar ranges.
A retail notice promotes Marvel Silk cotton fabric on the second floor priced at 25 cents per yard. Described as durable wear, with rustle and swish similar to silk, available in fast black and white plus all shades, 38 inches wide.
The Palais Royal offers custom millinery with abundant materials and reasonable prices. Build hats to match gowns at less than typical ready made options. Prices start around two dollars and twenty five cents with a ten percent discount to customers tomorrow.
The Coiffure and the Comb are highlighted as key millinery items. Reproductions of Tiffany designs offered at 44 cents, available in plain, gold mounted, and jeweled forms. Actual values range from one dollar to one dollar fifty, with lookalike appeal that suggests much higher worth.
Fashionable hair dressing offered at 50c. Palais Royal Balcony Parlor advertises the artistic Oncilateur Wave with Puff and Pompadour styling to suit new tilted hats, inviting patrons to update their look.
At basement floor a wide stock from leading makers is sold at low prices to avoid returns. Small size refrigerators go for 4.48 and ice chests for 2.98, with larger sizes similarly discounted. Sample goods include irons, boilers, china, plates, cups, and lamps, all available for two to three days. Visit soon for best selection.
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