Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21
IN THE STORES

A mere glimpse at the display windows
in the shopping district reveals the I'M
usual character of the clearance sales
now in progress. Take, for instance,
leading house that supplies ready-to-wear
gowns, wraps, suits and millinery for
fashionable customers. who want foreign
made garments without the bother and eX-
pense of going abroad to get them. The
view of marked-down importatons on the
wax figures behind the plate glass of that
store is a sight Washington bargain hunt
ers seldom have the good luck to see. There
are reception toilets of shimmering Satins,
stately, dowager-suggesting brocades, and
ETHEREAL chiffons that arrived in this coun-
try few weeks ago tagged at Way-up
prices. They are now so reduced as to be
within reach Of a really moderate purse.
The reason is simple. The importer must
provide an infinite variety of styles and
fabrics for the selection of customers
with endless differences in the matter of
taste The garments not sold must now
go at any price within reason, as the
spring models are arriving, and demand
the sartorial limelight. OF course, these
beautiful toilets could be carried over until
next season, but billowy trains and foamy
laces take up more room than an up-to-
date store can Spare-hence the marked
down prices in the show window.
On one of these wax figures is Partisan
gown of fine black net and lace over white
glace silk. The round demi-train will be
fashionable for at least year longer, and
the sleeves are in line with the three
quarter-ength style which Is to rage ike
a rash, according to spring and summer
advance notes. The bodice Is In the &C
cepted cuts and curves. with soft, high
collar and trig girdle, and the price list
to buy the material and make it at home
to say nothing of the indescribable touch
of elegance that only French dressmaker
seems able to achieve.
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Another wax model shows an evening
coat Of mist gray broadcloth, finished
with deep. fiat collar and cavalier cuffs
of silvery brocade 1t was designed in q
Paris studio and can be bought for less
than half its price value when it was
brought from the French capital On an
other figure is a little gown Of white India
muslin trimmed in dainty fashion with
real Ciuny lace The debutante who should
have bought 1t missed her chance and so
the gown has lost its first exquisite fresh
ness AS a result the price attached to 1t
Is no more than you would pay for an or
binary India linen frock trimmed with
cheap inserting and ruff1es Of machine
made lace. All 1t needs Is careful 1aunder-
ing-and nothing washes more beautifully
than sheer linen and real Cluny lace. The
same bargains are to be found in every
department of the big store-and IL isn't
store usually noted for such reductions,
either.
Another store includes in it's stock-tak-
ing bargains lot of suits, each of kind
in vogue throughout the present season.
The qualities consist of best broadcloth;
velvets. herringbone, cheviots and novelty
weayes. There are long coats. Elton and
twenty-seven-inch jacket suits, in all the
desirable colors; the skirts plated or
killed, and the Jackets entirely silk lined.
Another store has cut even deeper into
Its price reductions for a similar line Of gar
ments. owing to the intention Of the man
ayers to begin the spring with an entirely |
new stock
The woman whose heart goes out to plaid |
muslins. sprigged lawns and the thousand
and-one pretty conventional patterns In |
cambrics and percales, will find especial
pleasure In shopping the coming week. |
These very first harbingers of spring-pre- |
ceding pussy willows and nest building by |
nearly three nonths-will be found in more
or less quantities in nearly every store In |
the shopping sectioIl-which. incidentally |
has so enlarged its territory that It re- |
Quires an enthusiastic woman to make the |
entire round In single expedition.
Younger generations demand lightning