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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11889, 12 May 1899, Page 2

Business Notices. L'l .J”? t 1 j: Jf "I ABOUT AND OTHER TH INGS.

NOT SO LONG AGO . Tailor-made-Costumes were used for monring or . travelling wear only,. NOW FICKLE FASHION has changed all that, and ladies who aspire to be ' modish don Tailor-made Costumes at all hours and on all sorts of occasions. ; These garments are so useful, sacomfortable and SO BECOMING • • they suit everyone. They are adapted for ladie i of all ages, dark or fair, short, tall, or medium, MISS OR MADAM. . ■ . '• ■, .; , , One, striking advantage possessed by Tailor made Costumes in addition to those already i enumerated, is that each comprises A DOZEN TOILETS IN ONE, • . ... endless modifications of the-originai toilet being attainable by A JUDICIOUS ~ . . CHANCING OF VESTS - ■ • A convincing proof of the becomingness of the Tail Or-made costume is the fact that gentlemer invariably approve of it. Of course the Tadlor-built'Costume must be SELECTED WITH .. . JUDGMENT,* • *r and in order to exercise judgment, ladies must purchase at some establishment wherethechoice , offered is large and well assorted AND THAT IS WHERE WE COME IN* . . We not only make these useful, comfortable, durable, and fashionable costumes-to measure on ■' our own premises, affording ladies a bewildering . .. variety of material, English and Colonial, to ,■ 1 • ' 1 , selectfrom, but we keep an enormous stock o. these costumes BEADY MADE . * , for the convenience'of ladies who require some ‘ ‘ ' thing-for immediate use. , , . A well made costume lasts a long time, and , c ■ looks well until it is worn out. It is durable warm, and cosy, and IT SUITS THE FIGURE AS NOTHING ELSE . POES ■ v ■■ ■ ■■; , . ‘ ‘ ‘. we acknowledge no superiors. Our Millinery . v - . - . .- i -- . ■ Department is extremely popular with the ladies o • - of Canterbury. They know that so far as our . . . ' .■ -trade is concerned, webring _ LONDON AND PARIS to their very doors, so tospeab.and that wo are never behind the times. They know that the ' • . , ' latest London and Parisian novelties in.Milhnery , —are always to be found in our show rooms almost v . L ; ; \ ■ as. quickly as they are seen ;in , Regent Street or • ■ Boridj Street, or in the fashionable magazines of ... ‘ the Paris Boulevards. . i “ ' Wo are showing just now some specially -• •, attractive shipments of stylish hats, bonnets and toques, including the large velvet hats so im - J . popular for winter-wear, and that other •:* “ ■' , ' • fashionable novelty in hatsf known as the , ... , , ' “Gardener’s Daughter,” also the new style of v» . .. toques as now worn in London. FANCY GOODS » «■ to hand by the s.s. “Maori” and other recent arrivals are exquisitely beautiful. They comprise, interalia, miles of lovely ribbons in all . ; the latest shades,and adapted to all purposes . - ( t S ■ . beautiful laco (and lacewas never more faahion- >.- i V' > ' : \ able than at the present time), for the embeliisb- ' ' ’ '. menfc of the dinner toilet, opera, wedding and ’ . ’ " reception dresses, handkerchiefs (some : of them . veritable works of; art), ffillings, veilings, etc. LADIES’ UMBRELLAS . AND SUNSHADES. ’ . Chese we have in bewildering, variety of effects. A a changeable climate such as ours, umbrellas ire indispensable, not merely for personal com ort, but to protect the wearing apparel. They ooxusave their cost, aud it is no economy to be vithout one. -V' 1

CONSULT DB L. L. SMITH, L.S.A, F.8.G.5.L., F.S.A., 41, COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE. PEE BY LETTER, £l. ■ ■ Dr-3L I. SMITH also Treats Cancer, Paralyeiß, Nemms Affections and Myxcedem, a treated r 1 the Brown-Seqaard System, if desired, Dr Smith being the only medical man in the southern emfepherewho-personally war inefatartedby Professorßrown-Sequard at Paris. , DB L. 1.- SMITH’S MEDICAL ANDGENEEAL ALMANAC, 1899. ' A HAH3SBOOK,for the. Mothers and Householders d£ Australasia and New aVad Ifociawtor the of IBICE 6d. ABL BOOKSELLERS. All who desire-to have SOFT VELVETY SKIN Baer CAN OBTAIN BY USING pt KEEPS THE SKIN COOL AND REFRESHED HOT WEATHER, And entirely removes Ail Roughness, Redness, Tan, Chaps, Irritation, &c. BOTTLES, 60., 1/- & 5919 Mmn—ti. BEETHAM & SON, CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND SHARLAND & CO., AUCKLAND. FELTON, GRIMWADE, & CO., wr,f | Ifjr.''?' MtP CHRISTCHURCH. vmcmmr mms^ THE PROWWCf REPiUlfs BEST** ,-» oWJ o lTiiii 4 v igiDONWRKM*^ ODER^ kl AND JEWE.UA.U /as. jiiCH S7.enm&x cvumc* Tate wr mo m BETTER ■ THAN HOME-MAOr ■ - 'IS - "■ ASK FOR 55 _ U I ;Uv Raspberrv