Corset Fitting Promises Comfort and Stylish Silhouette
The absence of a smooth hip line or proportional waist line and a protruding lower back can ruin an elegant gown or smart suit. Get a corset fitted for comfort, style, and proper foundation.
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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
11
The absence of a smooth hip line or proportional waist line and a protruding lower back can ruin an elegant gown or smart suit. Get a corset fitted for comfort, style, and proper foundation.
A new display features bandeaux brassieres priced from 1.00 to 3.00 in mercerized batiste fancy brocades satin and mesh fabrics. Lace trimmed and plain styles offered as the most complete and attractive line shown in many seasons.
Advertises a spring line of pattern veils priced from 1.25 to 2.50 featuring braiding rene veiling meshes chenille dot veiling in colors blue purple taupe and ack with yardage options and chiffon auto veils at 1.25 in silk chiffon with hemstitched ends and borders essenciais.
A small advertisement touts Ladies Knit Union Suits at 1.00 each in spring weight with low necks and knee length. Mercerized suits in long and short sleeves also 1.00, ankle length, promising savings next winter. Also half price children’s knit bloomers and outing flannel skirts with sale prices and infant wool finished vests.
A catalog-style notice lists children’s hose two pairs for 50 cents and men’s lisle socks in black and colors with double sole and heel at 80 cents, offered as a two-pair deal.
Beautiful metal bag tops in attractive designs available in 5 and 7 inch sizes. Prices mainly 69c with some items at 50c and a full line of bag tops in fancy art metals and tortoise shell priced from 1 to 6.25 dollars.
Pearl beads sell for 39 cents per 14 inch strand in assorted sizes. The New Lucky Elephants come in pink and white and are designed to be worn on a long black ribbon. Sale applies to both items for Friday and Saturday only.
Frugal shoppers find a sale listing many items with small prices including toothpaste powders face powders and bath products. The ad highlights Luxor Pepsodent Kolynos Pond s and Lavoris items with special prices and mentions bedding pieces and cotton blankets in bulk sizes.
Bleached linen finished damask with floral patterns offered at 75c per yard. Yard wide table linens and napkins promoted along with Turkish towels and bed spreads in a Friday Saturday sale, featuring reduced prices and assorted sizes.
Friday and Saturday sale offers hundreds of handkerchiefs in several styles. Ladies plain linen handkerchiefs with narrow hemstitched hems cost 25 cents. Also colored lawn handkerchiefs in new color combinations and embroidered linen handkerchiefs. Men’s French cotton handkerchiefs with narrow hemstitched hems priced at 25 cents.
Advertises 36 inch bleached muslin at 25 cents a yard with 1100 yards in short lengths 2 to 10 yards. Also features 36 inch unbleached muslin at 95 cents, new ginghams and linens 35 to 50 cents a yard, 36 inch limo cloth and Golden Rod Naphtha Borax washing powder deal, plus large Japanese reed clothes baskets at 2 dollars two bits.
The ad promotes 81x90 bed sheets at $1.95 each with round thread weave and wide hems, noting they would fetch 50 percent more at market value. Also listed are 42-inch pillow cases of fine tubing weave with wide hems at 39 cents, for Friday and Saturday.
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