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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 945, 15 December 1933, Page 8

Gifts Carry a Message GAIETY and COMFORT in KEEPING with the SEASON are conveyed by the Dressing - Gowns and other smart Dress Accessories for Men—now showing at Ballantynes. Silk Dressing Gowns, beautifully finished with long fitting collar, double cuffs, button fastening and girdle in self with fringed ends. Colourings are: Navy, Gold/Black, Cherry/Black, Cinnamon/Blue in shot effects .. 34/6 to 65/ Blazers. All-Wool in popular stripes: Red/Green, Blue/Gold, Red/Black/White, Red/Navv/White, Navy/Black, Gold/Red/Black . . 33/6 to 37/6 Plain Navy Blazers, with edges piped in White, Gold or Red .. .. • . • 25/6 Sports Coats. Latest styles, as now showing in London. Bold and subdued checks and new plaid effects in Brown, Lovat, Fawn, etc. Also in Imitation Harris Tweed and speckled Hopsac—--49/6 to 84/Flannel Trousers. Present season’s styles, with pleated front, belt loops, cuff bottoms and usual pockets. In smart shades of Grey .. 19/6 to 37/6 SCHOOL BLAZERS Ready-to-Wear— Priced according to size— Christ's College . •• •• to 43/6 St. Andrew’s, with monogram .. .. ■. • •. 34/6 to 46/6 Boys' High School 35/6 to 39/6 Medbury School, with monogram 26/6 to S3/6 Old Boys Association Blazers—made to order: highest grade: Boys’ High School .. - 49/6, 69/6, 79/6 Christ’s College 73 /8 St. Andrew’s .. ■» •• Plain 45/-; Striped 62/6, 73/6 Canterbury College 46/-, 66/i = — -tfZ~L

A Christmas tree competition will be featured at the shilling old-time dance to-morrow evening in the Ferry Road Hall. Forty Yuletide gifts will be given as prizes. Special music will be played by the assembly’s old-time dance band

Rings are seldom worn on the thumb to-day, but in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the thumb was the fashionable “ ring-finger.”