Each week now brings additional spring fashions, and the displays at the various establishments are extensive and attractive. One of the most noticeable facts in connection with the materials for the coming season is the increasing ...
Article : 144 wordsIn the fancy department at Victoria House there is an excellent variety of basket goods, wicker worktables, with trays, upholstered in velvet, or satin, knitting or crochet baskets, some in brown stained ...
Article : 277 wordsThe specialty for the season is the all-round stripes in black and other dark colours, in lisle thread, with the stripes in silk; the greater number, both for ladies and children, in light and dark colours, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 214 wordsThere is one notable change in the way of using lace on gowns—namely., to have the centre of the skirt in one flounce, which, gathered fully at the waist, spreads, tablier fashion, at the lower edge. White lace is used over ...
Article : 395 wordsThe great event of this month has been the Centennia Exhibition of pictures from almost all European countries and of specimens of other arts. Frederick the Great, though highly gifted with taste and understanding for all ...
Article : 2,532 wordsThis is one of the daintiest fabrics of the season. It is really a lace design on a fine gauze foundation; it is made in flounce widths. The design in white stands out in relief and seems to have no foundation. This is in black, yellow, ...
Article : 198 wordsSuch an article seems the very last to be found in a draper's establishment; but the name catches the eye at once. A little inquiry resulted in the information that this is the name given to a peculiar shade of bead trimming ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 303 wordsThe full vests, which last year were made of lace or fancy silk, are this season chiefly in muslin and pique, and instead of forming a portion of or being worn under the bodice they are now worn over the gown and finish in a tab below ...
Article : 172 wordsA novelty in the satin ribbons of the season is that both sides are alike. This difference is very acceptable when bows and loops of all lengths arc in such demand for gowns and millinery; it is annoying to find the wrong side ...
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Advertising : 74 wordsThe great supply of new gloves indicates that particular attention will be given to the silk makes. For evening wear, one style, equal in length to 24 buttons, has a frill of lace at the edge, the same colour, and a band of satin ribbon, ...
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Sat 4 Sep 1886, Page 497
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