Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-05
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so. Seventeen good colors
and black. 44-inch.
Lupin's La Source, her
ring-bone twill, goes down
from 81 lately $I.Io) to 60
cents. Fourteen good colors
Drab ale Parma, a whip
cord twill, a favorite stuff at
SLIPS, goes down to rs cents
Twenty-Five colors and black.
4o-inch.
Homespun, large one-color
twill with hanging hairs, goes
down from 81 to rs cents.
Ten good colors. 42-inch.
A similar homespun of
same width and half the price.
Navy-blue, green, snuff and
black.
Still another homespun,
large two-color twill, down
from so cents to SIN.
Gray-and-black, brown-and-
white. 42-inch.
Not one Of these goes down
for any reason whatever in
the cloths themselves. What
is the reason9 Accident picked
them out for the tumble.
Rough stuffs are crowding
smooth ones; but these are
not smooth. Serge, herring
bone whip-cord twill and home
spun belong to the middle
style between rough and
smooth that thousands on
thousands prefer. And yet
we can't account for the
tumble except by the pressure
of rough on, smooth. The
question was: What shall give
way' Nothing but accident
fell upon these.
The serge is as staple as
any stuff in the store. Her
ringbone scarcely less so.
Whip-cord twill a favorite
heavy dress-stuff. Homespun?
Nothing more SO. Good col
ors all through.
None of these are novelties:
never were. They never bore
the prices of novelties. They
have fallen-not from novelty
prices-from staples. What
ever happens no greater sur
prise is coming. Those Lupins
dark-colored 5o-cent cash
meres for 37h cents were not
a greater surprise. What a
stir they have made though
Southeast from centre.
Old news as good as new :
those 81 ladies' cloth for rs
cents; 56-inch and every color
in favor. For more than half
a-year we have kept these
cloths at rs cents.
Southwest from centre.
Peculiar black silks for
dresses, dress-fronts, trim
mings and wraps:
Honeycomb network OF
large satin cord over ottoman,
making a very thick fabric
sometimes half as thick as a
beaver cloth, extremely soft
and light and warm. 81 to So,
23H inch.
Another similar with some
what less of the honeycomb
character, lighter and closer,
less velvety, with wavy lines
from side to side-somewhat
akin to basket-work. So, az
inch.
Broad-wale diagonal, soft
like jersey, elastic on the bias
S2.25, 22-inch.
Satin de Lyon with a fine
fiat twill, 81, 22-inch.
The same with the cord
across not diagonal. $3.50 to
$2.75, 22-inch,
Basket-cord, a cord with
basket effect in the cord.
S1.35, 22-inch.
Broad fiat plated cord with
distinct sharp channels across.
81 to s., 20 to 22-inch.
Iricotine-looks like jersey.
81 to 81, 20 to 22-inch.
Venetian, diamond armure,
$I.35, 2I-inch.
Mourning silk, a light, dull,
lustreless, cloudy, elusive,
trembling cord. $r.35 and
$3.50, 22-inch.
Such are the black silk
fabrics that owe their peculiar
effects to different weaving, to
merely picking apart the
lengthwise fbres differently
at the successive throws of
the shuttle-nothing but tricks
OF the weaver. One is like
another but that. How diff
ferent.
Southwest from the centre.
john WANAMAKER.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets.
and City-hall square.
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