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(P / ( / ? ■ Q^ : c^toveuf Ovemsig' (found. These Gowns, which we are going to try to describe to you, are so radiantly beautiful as to make • I the task we have set ourselves well nigh impossible. They are the very choicest of Garments made for • . the smart set of London and Paris, and are perfect master-pieces of some master-designer's mind. • • The colours are soft, rich, and glowing ; the materials are dainty and diaphanous, the trimmings are in • • perfect harmony, and the toute ensemble is simply exquisite. There are hardly twelve altogether, and we • . have not shown them at all yet. About twelve lucky people will get one each, and • when they wear them for the first time will cause many envious glances from those who have not been so fortunate. Every one is a model, and every one is entirely jfHHß^k The first Model Skirt is of Beautifully Soft and Light Silk Mouseline, of a pale sky blue shade. It is wMjMSlS^^r trimmed in front with two rows of very dainty white Irish ciochet lace, m a pretty gailand design, about 18 inches npait. WKfß&?Sss^^ About 20 inches from the hem it is gauged, and the gauging runs right lound the back and finishes on each side at the front, ||Mgfif ■"-''■ - y giving the effect of a wide giadu.ited flounce, fauly nairow in front and gradually deepening towards the back. This skirt is WP**^ lined through with blue silk, and has sufficient matenal with it for a bodice. Price, £10 los. od. • : % \ : 3 Pmsertton bands of eciu clunylace let into the matenal at 20 inches of the bottom, when it inns light round the skirt, is inserted la • mtervis o" "our or five inches, which run right round the skirt, lovely Irish crochet lace about 12 inches wide. On the upper side of this • the m tena between the bands of lace being prettily gauged. The first band of lace is a simdar band of gauging, about two inches wide and band of lace commences about 12 inches from th P belt. This poition of thiough the lace itself is threaded a soft rich soaif of the matenal finished t£ ?sknt « ? aS^gTugedrfght r ound. The general effect is most bewitch- in a pietty knot in fiont. The lining is pink silk, and matenal for the • • ing md the silk lining and bodice matenal make this Skirt a bargain at bodice accompanies it. 11 Guineas. ±Tice, n uuineas. # • 3*3 * 5. \ • The thiid skirt of Silk Mouseline Voile is in a soft maize shade. . r^ am c:n , . It has two flounces at the bottom edged with ribbon braid. The upper The last Sknt we have loom to descnbe heie ,s of Cream Silk • • flounce is surmounted by a band of wavy lace insertion, outlined on each Mouseline de Soie, with inseition bands of lace medallion ™crasted • Sl de by the same ribbon braid. The upper portion is comparatively plain net let in at intervals. The matenal in the interstices between the bands till within about twelve inches of the belt, when a senes of soft folds of net is anangsd in soft dainty folds. The bottom is finished by one about an inch wide, oveilapping each other, rise in the foim of a peak giaduated accordeon-pleatecl flounce at the front which gradually to meet the belt. Like the others, this skiit is lined thiough with -widens into three at the back. The lining is white silk, and the /g^3^ jfIHMB^W silk, and has material foi the bodice. _ matenal foi bodice is included. H Guineas ir^flMll KIRKCALDJE AND STAINS, LIMITED. lp^

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Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 191, 27 February 1904, Page 8

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Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 191, 27 February 1904, Page 8

Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 191, 27 February 1904, Page 8

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