Drapery. '"spring costumes. PER HALCIONE. TTIRCALDIE & STAINS' Have already for Exposition ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WALKING COSTUMES Ready for weav, In SILKS, MOHAIR, CHALLIE, PIQUE, BATISTE, TASSA, NANKIN, LAWN, All superbly Trimmed and Braided in the MOST FASHIONABLE STYLE. In recommending those dresses to the ladies of Wellington, visitors, and members of the Assembly, KIRCALDIE & STAINS would briefly introduce the remarks of their London buyer, Mr R. Kircaldie : — "I may say here, regarding costumes generally, that ib has become a most wonderful trade. The West end houses make up every kind of costumo from a cheap stuff to the richost silks, all short. The great novelty and most universally worn style is the costume made in two shades of th'o same color ; sometimoß there is a contrast, but very sol- j dom. Those forwarded by the Halcione are j fclie lateafc, and selected from tlie largest costumo makers iv London, whose taste (sine? the suspension of all intercourse with Paris) is recognised as the ton of fashion." THIS DAY (SATURDAY) one of the large Show Windows will be filled with these costumes, when an inspection is respectfully invited. An. immenso variety of DRESS MATERIALS have alsQ been received, commencing I from 5Jd per yard to 3a 6d, in various fabrics, and suitable for the present and advancing season. New FANCY SILKS for Spring, in all the leading designs. BLACK SILKS Specially purchased aftor the wear of the same class of goods has been tested. Children's Print Dresses, from 2s each Pique Braided Pelisses, 9s Pique Drosses for Children, 8s Sateen Jean do, in drab, buff, and white, from 8s 6d each. Printed Sateen Dresses, 8s 6d S cases Ladies' fashionable Straw Hats, in the most fashionablo shapes Gipsy Straw Bonnets in great variety The latest shape in Ladies' Riding Hats Ladies' Morning Wrappers, from 12s 6d to 42s Ladies' made skirts in a variety of new materials suitable for costumes. Tr IRCALDIE & STAINS Have received another shipment of the LITTLE WANZER SEWING MACHINES, £5 ss. These machines having boon used in their establishment during the last twolvo months, they are recommended by them as the most officiont and simple of any they have ever had in übo. Ab the number is limited, ladies, heads of familios, or hotelkoepers, aro especially requested to inspeot them. • KIRCALDIE & STAINS. . Just rooeived, a large assortment of LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING, Of every description. Ist September.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3295, 6 September 1871, Page 1
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