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A Real Opportunity for Women,
Young Girl and Older Women
A sale of Wahamaker coats is worth looking into
at any time, but a sale of fashionable Spring coats,
Wanamaker quality, before Easter is doubly inter
esting. There are four special groups, with women's and
young women's sizes in each group but not all sizes in
every style.
50 Sports Coats at $18.25
every one of which was mai-ked more in regular
stock. . There are' good-looking models of jersey, sil
vertone and burella. A few have smart Tuxedo fronts
and some are trimmed with brushed wool.
Coats of Polo Cloth at $37.30
As well as the light tan, there are coats in dark or
light green and every coat is lined throughout. Some
have the toppy three-pleat backs and others are trim
med with ball buttons and loops.
80 Full-Length Coats at $48.50
Bolivia Tricotine
Suede Velour Poiret Twill
All fully lined and worth a great 'deal more !
Special, Indeed!
40 Camel's Hair Coats at $58
These are taken from regular stock and reduced
to make an Easter special. Both full-length and box
coats are cut on mannish lines.
(Mnrkrt)
A Thousand Charming
New Easter Hats
Delightful affairs, trimmed
or tailored, start at $5.
At $6 there are very smart
hemp sailors in black or navy
faced with white. They're
just right with spoits suits or
coats.
Bright Colors at
$6 and $8
include little taffeta hats with
bobbing tassels of wool or
bindings of striped hemp
braid. Turbans with upturned brims arc faced with feathers.
In turquoise, jade green, Copenhagen, rose, toast and cherry red.
Black Basket Straw at $12.50
These hats are new in every particular and make their first
bow on Saturday. The straw is glossy and is often combined
with filray hairbraid or cire ribbon. Most becoming with silk
frocks.
Untrimmed Hats and Their Trimmings
Broad-brimmed hats in many colors are $2 to $8. Little
rosettes of fruit or flowers start at 25c. Wreaths start at 35c
for cherries and go to $3.7G for fine field flowers.
(Murket)
500 Georgette Blouses
Special at $5.90
Pretty blouses of a good quulity Georgette crepe are in
flesh and white. Some havo short sleeves and others long, and
there are both tailored and lacy styles. As light and Spring
like us the Eastertide!
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Women's Drop-Stitch Stockings
Special at $1.50
They are of gleaming, durable silk-and-fiber in various
combinations brown with navy, gold or green, navy with
purple, black with white. Quite the thing, for oxfords and
pumps!
(Central)
Lightly Boned Topless Corsets
$1.35
Of white coutil with elastic insots in the top.
Pink Bandeaux, 50c
Of pink marquisette with tape- shoulder straps and lastic
inset in the back.
(Tenlral)
Women's Easter Footwear
$5.40 to $9.90
Pumps Oxford Tiea
One-eyelet Ties Instep Ties
High Shoes Practical Shoes
In all the fashionable leathers
4000 Pair of Children 's Shoes and
Ankle-Strap Pumps, Special
Shoes in sizes 11V& to 2 are $3.00 a pair.
Ankle-strap pumps in sires
1 to G, ?2. 8s to lHa, ?3.
4 to 8, 2.50. ' 11 to 2, $3.60.
They arc in white leather (like buckskin), black patent or
dull leather.
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This sale is the most remarkable one of its kind of which we have knowl
edge, looking a long time back. We do not know when its like will occur again.
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It took the co-ordination of many forces to create for you the opportunity to
buy
a silk or wool dress for $10
a dress for $20 that compares favorably with a dress at $55
a dress for $20 that a dressmaker would charge $30 to make
a dress for street, business or afternoon wear at less' than half of what you
would expect to pay, and probably finer than you'd hoped for.
$10
$12.50 $10 $12.50
Taffeta Dresses
are in rose, taupe, navy, black, Copenhagen, brown
and tan, and their prices range $10, $12.50, $15,
$17.50 and $20.
Wool Jersey Dresses
are in brown, Copenhagen, navy, reindeer, tan,
Pekin and French blue at $10, $12.50, $15, $17.50,
$20.
Serge and Tricotine Dresses
are all in navy blue. Serges start at $10, tricotines
at $15, and both go to $20. -
Satin Dresses
are in navy, Copenhagen and black. Foulards and
Georgettes are mostly in blue-and-white combina
tions. Crepe meteor is in navy blue and black.
Satins start at $15; the others are mostly $20.
We Have Carefully Shopped
Around for You
and we find that the cheapest Eton dress in Philadel
phia is $23.50. Our Etons start at $10.
The lowest price on a tricotine dress elsewhere
is $25 ours start at $15.
There are very few foulard dresses of moderate
price shown anywhere. We have plenty at $15 and
$17.50.
The nearest comparisons to our $20 tricotines are
marked $35 and $40 elsewhere.
Dresses similar to our $15 dresses are $30 else
where. So goes the comparison all along the line ; in every
instance the savings are astonishing.
519 fresh, spring dresses of serge,
taffeta or wool jersey at
307 dresses of serge, wool jersey,
wool poplin or taffeta at
837 dresses of serge, tricotine, taf
feta, satin foulard and wool jersey
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804 dresses of tricotine, serge, jersey,
taffeta, crepe meteor and silk and
Georgette combinations at
1291 dresses of printed Georgette,
crepe meteor, Georgette combi
nations, foulard, taffeta, trico
tine, serge and jersey at
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Tricotine and serge are made in a number of Eton
styles with knife-pleated, box-pleated or gathered skirts.
A pretty dress of serge has unusual embroidery in
tinsel and red or blue silk outlining the sleeves, neck and
pockets.
A tricotine bolero frock has steel beads on the bodice
and a black satin sash which ends in silver tassels.
A navy-and-white foulard dress has short blue
Georgette sleeves and Georgette vestee.
At $20
Fashions Are of the Season's
Best
Eton jacket effects
. Accordion-pleated skirts
Knife-pleated and box-pleated skirts
Short sleeves or long
Tinsel embroidery in gold or silver
Embroidered motifs in wool
Beading and heavy silk embroidery
Plaid or moire silk sashes
Long, straight lines and narrow belts
In Eton Dresses Alone There
Are Fifteen Different Styles
and you will find Etons and pleated skirts in every group
from $10 to $20. For women who prefer the straight,
chemise lines there are more than a score of styles. Women
in their middle years will prefer the tunic dresses of foulard
and soft crepe meteor. The printed Georgettes will be
Summery and cool all Summer long.
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A navy blue serge frock has an Eton jacket, a plaid silk
sash and an accordion pleated skirt. (Sketched.)
Navy serge chemise dresses have heavy silk embroidery
on the skirts, done by hand, or are trimmed with black silk
braid.
Taffeta dresses in Copenhagen, reindeer, navy and black
have quaint little pinked ruffles for trimming.
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Dozens and dozens of pretty frocks of printed
Georgette, charmeuse, crepe meteor, satin-and-Georgette
combinations, taffeta, foulard, tricotine, serge and jersey.
Navy serge is made with a long bodice and an accordion
pleated 3kirt. Circular motifs of embroidery in red, Copen
hagen or ochre trim the bodice and sleeves.
Navy tricotine is embroidered or trimmed with steel
beads.
An Eton dress of navy serge is made with a tunic and
embroidered in red wool.
Black or navy crepe meteor is embroidered with tinsel.
A coat dress of navy tricotine is particularly suited to
women who wear large sizes.
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There Are Sizes for All
Hundreds of dresses are in sizes 14, 1(5 and 18 for young
women and there are fittings in all women's sizes from
to 44 and, in some styles, up to 50.
Extra Space Has Been Requisitioned
for This Sale
Other sections have been condensed that these dresses
may be easily examined and chosen. Upward of 200 sales,
people will be here to help you and extra forces for wrapping
will promote quick and efficient service.
Nevertheless Come Early
Navy blue serges are embroidered in black silk braid,
and wool jersey drosses in Copenhagen, reindeer, brown,
navy and Pekin are embroidered in contrasting wool.
Wool poplin dresses are smartly tailored and taffetas j
arc made in a pimple, wearablo way with Toll collars.
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Here are fresh foulards in cool blue and white combina
tions. Satin in navy, black or Copenhagen and taffeta in
navy or black are also in the silk group.
Tricotines begin at this price and are made in a tunic
or straight-line style trimmed with black silk braid.
Navy blue serges and wool jersey dresses in many
stylos are also included.
Navy-and-whito foulard is trimmed with buttons.
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