Drapery. SPRING COSTUMES. PER HALCIONE. IZIROALDIE & STAINS Have already for Exposition ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WALKING COSTUMES Ready for wear, In SILKS, I MOHAIR, I CHALLIE, j PIQUE, BATISTE, TASSA, NANKIN, LAWN, All superbly Trimmed and Braided in the MOST FASHIONABLE STYLE. In recommending these drosses to the ladies of Wellington, visitors, and meaabers of the Assembly, KIRCALDIE & STAINS would briefly introduce the remarks of thoir London buyer, Mr R. Kircaldie : — "I may say here, regarding costumes generally, that ifc has booome a most wonderful trade. Tho West ond houses make up every kind of costume from a cheap stuff to the richosfc silks, all short. The great novelty and most universally worn style is the costume made in two shades of fche same color ; sometimes thero is a contrast, bufc very seldom. Those forwarded by the Halcione are tho latest, and selected from the lafgest costume makers in London, whose taste (since the suspension of all intercourse with Paris) is recognised as the ton of fashion." THIS DAY (SATURDAY) ono of tho large Show Windows will be filled with these costumeß, when an inspection is respectfully invited. An immense varioty of DRESS MATERIALS have also been received, commencing from 6_d per yard to 3s 6d, in various fabrics, and suitable for the present and advancing season. New FANCY SILKS for Spring, in all the leading designs. BLACK SILKS Speoially purchasod after the wear of the same class of goods has beon tosted. Children's Print Dressos, from 2s each Pique Braided Pelisses, 9s Pique Dresses for Children, 8s Sateen Jean do, in drab, buff, and white, from 8s 6d each Printed Sateen Dresses, 8s 6d 5 cases Ladios' fashionable Straw Hats, in tho most fashionable shapes Gipßy Straw Bonnets in great variety The latest shape in Ladies' Riding Hats Ladie a' Morning Wrappers, from 12e 6d to 42s Ladies' made skirts in a variety of now materials suitable for costumes. TTIRCALDIE & STAINS Hare received another shipment of tho LITTLE WANZER SEWING MACHINES, £5 ss. These machines haviug been used in their establishment during tho last twelve months, they are recoramondod by them as tho most efficient and simple of any they have ever had in uso. As the numbor is limitod, ladios, hoads of families, or hotelkeepers, are especially requested to inspect them. KIRCALDIE & STAINS. Just received, a large assortment of , LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING, Of every desoription, Ist September.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3292, 2 September 1871, Page 1
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