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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11898, 23 May 1899, Page 2

NOT SO LONG AGO . Taitor-madeCostatmes were used for morning or travelling weanonly, NOW FICKLE FASHION has-changed all that, and ladies who aspire to be modisiwion TaHtwMnade Costumes at all hours and on-allsozts-of occasions. Thesagarments are-so useful,so comfortable and SO BECOMING . ' •'••'; • they'striteeveryone'. They-are adapted for ladie: of aljbages, dark or fair, short, tall, or medium, MISS OR MADAM . A DOZEN TOILETS IN ONE, , . . . . A JUDICIOUS . . . CHANGING OF VESTS "One striking advantage possessed by Tailor made Costumes in addition to those already enumerated, is'that eaoh comprises endless modifications of the original toilet being attainable by SELECTED WITH . JUDGMENT, .'... . A convincing proof of the becomingness of the Tailor-made costume is the fact that gentlemer invariably approve of it. Of course the Tailor-built Costume must be . and in order to exercise judgment, ladies must purchaseat where the choice offered is large and well assorted AND THAT IS WHERE WE COME IN. . . READY biMAp# IT SUITS THE FIGURE AS NOTHING ELSE . DOES . . . 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 select from, but we keep an enormous stock o these costumes 'forthe,Convenience require some Wing "Wr ' s " A well made costume lasts a long time, and looks well until it is worn out. It is durable warm, and cosy, and we acknowledge no superiors. Our Millinery Department is-exfcremely popular'with, the ,ladies of Canterbury. They know that so far as our trade is concerned, we bring . .LONDON AND PARIS to theirvery doors, so to speak, and that we are never behind the times. They know that the latest liOndonandParisian novelties in Millinery are always to bafoundin our showrooms almost as-guicHy.as they are seen in Kegent-Street or Bond Street,-or in-the fashionable magazines of the Paris Boulevards. ''•■'• ';,'■■. We;.are showing just now some specially ; attractive shipments of stylish hats, bonnets and .... toques, including the large velvet hats so im ' menselyTpopular-for winter wear, and that other fashionable novelty in hats known as the "Gardener's Daughter," also the new style of .'■■■■ toques as now worn in London. \ FANCY GOODS , just to hand by the s.s. "Maori" and other recent arrivals are exquisitely beautiful. They comprise, inter alia, miles of lovely ribbons in, all the latest shades, and adapted to all purposes beautiful lace was never more fashionable than-at the present time), for the embellishment of the dinner toilet, opera,.wedding and reception dresses, handkerchiefs (some of them veritable works of art), frillings, veilings, etc. LADIES* UMBRELLAS AND SUNSHADES. These we have in bewildering variety of effects. In a changeableclimate-such as ours, umbrellas are indispensable, not merely for peraonal com fort, but to protect the wearing apparel. They soon save-their cost, and itis no economy to be without-one. PURE TEAS OF TMSse Sfumosmt t/mttwu.ED for w&m srce/tcrn, fucmmss oPFtmmm mo wmoim qwuty. WHOLESALE AGENTS HARLEQUIN TOBACCO foe the husband TIGER TEAS k>k the wife. THEY MUST BE HAPPY. SHBEP-BRA N D I N G OIL 8 of GBEAT STRENGTH Of COLOOB and ECONOMICA& TO U3E, Diva Not Sot Hard in the "Drums,-wid is Free frotn Tax and Other injurious .Materials. '..:. THJKKE COLOOTS-BED, BLACK AND BLUE. .... i IN DRUMS AND ONE-GALLON TINS. .WHOLESALE-*- ' JEfflHsl&£jNl) SMITH". DUNEDIN.