San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 117, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 27, 1913 Page: 28 of 67
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OLFSON'S
Alamo
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1913.
WOLFSON'S Losoji WOLFSON'S
Commerce
WOLFSON'S
The Fiesta of Summer Frocks and Blouses ^
Will Begin Monday Morning at Wolf son \s j
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"Beauty is tlir first gift of Nature
to Woman—and the first it takes away"
The Burnham Beauty Parlors
of Chicago Sends to Us a
Medicated Face Powder
which has all of the properties of any face
powder that is carefully made of pure and ef-
ficient ingredients and in addition is medicated
so that its use will be indicated for sensitive
skins.
Free Samples of this powder will be given
Monday, also a Burnham Beauty Book.
White, flesh and blended, 50c.
Wo have 25 other kinds of Burnham toilet
requisites.
Main Floor
Semi-made Gowns Are Ready
to Wear When Embroidered
Slip-over style, stamped for embroidering,
when the scalloped edged sleeves and yoke is
embroidered and trimmed they are ready. 75c.
Slipover Gowns in which two seams are
needed; stamped for embroidering, 50c.
Linen Huck Towels, in various stamped de-
signs, 25c, 50c, 65c, 75c and $1.
Carpet Warp Crochet Cotton, 25c,
Second Floor
Parisian Ivory
Dance and Vanity Fans
The former have numbered sticks to record
dance engagements on (which can be removed
with a wet cloth), They are 50c.
Vanity fans have chatelaines in the shape of
mirrors with a powder puff, a book of powder
paper or a powder puff alone. 75c.
Main Floor *
When An Inexpensive Gift
Is to Be Made the First
Thought Is Usually Books
Good books are always acceptable and last-
ing reminders of the donor. We have books on
nearly any subject that might be asked for, as
well as recent and popular fiction.
Pocket editions with expressions of noted characters
in literary fields are bound in ooze leather and printed
on fine paper, 50c, 60c, 75c and $1.
Main Floor
Hold Out Your Hands
For 16-button Gloves
That Can Be Washed, 50c
Tan, white, black or red lisle; white or nat-
ural chamoisette.
They are very, dressy and go well with any
summer costume and when they are soiled
Ivory soap and water will make them ney, 50
cents the pair.
Note: We have the Ivory soap, too,
Main Floor
New Matelasse Ribbons
For Hat Bands and Sashes
The Matelasse motifs are done in Oriental
colorings, so they are suitable to be matched
up with any costume; yard, 50 cents,
A pretty new ribbon is 6 inches wide, made
with outside strips of warp-printcd taffeta in
Dresden designs, with a center strip of plain
moire; also warp-printed taffetas in solid Dres-
den and pompadour designs; 50, 60 and 75 cents
the yord.
M»tn Floor
A
WAIST EVENT that will be
a very unusual demonstra-
tion of economical prices on
fresh and fashion-approved
Summer Waists and Blouses
The collection was very carefully chosen and as-
sorted, the purchase was an extensive one and the
cost to us was less than it would have been under or-
dinary circumstances and each waist is a new and re-
cently evolved style.
The windows for an index.
Seventeen Styles at 98c—In lingerie ma-
terials, prettily trimmed with laces and
embroideries and including a limited num-
ber of colored stripe voiles with heavy lace
collars and velvet ribbon bow ties.
Fifteen Styles at $1—Headed by a charming one, in fine voile with colored stripes
and ornamented with red hollyberry buttons. The others are all in white voile
of a nice, sheer quality, variously elaborated with pin tucks, lace and embroid-
ery insertions and medallions, several styles being embroidered in dainty motifs
in Bulgarian colorings.
One Style at $1.50—A pretty blouse made of soft, sheer voile with low "V" neck
and elbow sleeves with turn-back cuffs. The front finished in heavy embroid-
ery and the yoke with crochet lace insertion. Dots, embroidered in Bulgarian
colors, for a contrasting note.
Four Styles at $1.59—White voile, made with low neck and net yoke, yoke edged
with crocheted rings and lace; hand embroidered lingerie finished with Val
laces and shadow laces and crochet buttons; tucked lingerie with lingerie col-
lars and cuffs, velvet bow ties; lingerie with lace insertions and heavy hand-
embroidered motifs.
Four Stvles at $1.95—All are of sheer, dainty white voile, finished with laces and
embroidery in Irish crochet designs, pin tucks, etc. One style has crystal but-
tons and another is the new "ribbon blouse," having a broad ribbon inside the
blouse, drawn through and forming a big bow on the outside.
The "Ribbon Blouse" at $2.95—Fine voile with neck finished in pretty laces, em-
broidered front and underneath ribbons, in various shades, with the ends tied
into a broad bow outside.
Specially Reduced Linen Shirts and Waists
A great assortment of grass bleached Irish linens, made up into plainly tailored,
hand-embroidered and tucked waists and shirts. To give greater attraction to this
display of waists we have reduced these linen waists—
$6.50 to $4.35
$4.50 to $3,00
$6.50 to $4.35
$3.50 to $2.35
$5.00 to $3.35
$7.50 to $5.00
$4.00 to $2.65
$6.00 to $4.00
$8.50 to $5.65
Thlr« f loor
A Display of
Spring and
Summer
FOOTWEAR
Will be found in the
Alamo windows that is
typical of the most
prominent modes of
the season.
Skilled fitters are
very prominent fea-
ture of the Wolfson
Shoe Store Service,
and, of course, the
Wo 1 f s o n guarantee
goes along with each
pair sold.
Pumps and Oxfords
in white canvas, pop-
lin, duck and buckskin
are priced from $1.50
to $5.
>1»in floor
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NEW
Embroidered Crepe
Bands and Edges
Silk Laces for
Graduation Dresses
Crepe is very fashionable and hSs the distinction of blending well with
nearly any kind of a summer dress.
Fine white crepe is daintily embroidered into bands and edges, 40 and
50 cents the i-ard.
Silk Laces are in exquisite designs, 4, 18 and 27 Inches wide, 50 cents to
$6.50 the yard.
Becoml Hoof ,
75 Patterns of Cotton Voile
For Summer Dresses 15c
When the supply is gone we may not be able to get more, at
least not the same quality at the same price.
Light and dark stripes, checks, plaids and fancy figures, and
some very dainty floral designs; yard, 15c,
28-inch figured batistes and organdies, 15c.
28-inch rippiette seersucker, the "rough-dry" fabric that needs no iron-
ing, yard 15c.
28-inch corded tissues and dimities, 15c.
31-inch plisse crepe, for kimonos and any kind of undergarments, yard,
20{,
27-inch Manville mercerized chambrays, 10c.
Hwoiifl Floor
Come and See 90-inch Linen Suiting
and Buy It for $2 a Yard
Two yards and a half wide, alJ-linen, medium weight, closely
woven and suitable for any use to which one might want to put a
high-grade linen suiting.
The supply we have will soon be sold and there will be no more
like it at $2 the yard.
Also, 30c Linen for 21c
Monday only, a limited yardage of yard-wide white linen suiting, med-
ium weight, well woven.
Regularly sold at 30 cents, special Monday 21c.
54-inch white linen suiting, special 39c.
45-inch all-linen oyster white suiting, special 50c,
36-inch all-linen Hardanger suiting, special 65c.
90-inch all-linen full bleached suiting, special $1.50.
Nwnnd Floor
Brocaded White Madras
For a Balkan Blouse
On for any of the numerous attractive styles of short coats or
roof-garden jackets.
New, and a marvel of the weaver's art Several rich desips,
The material is 28 inches wide. An extra good quality at a mediocre
price; yard, 29 cents.
(There are several McCall patterns that will serve as an inspira-
tion in designing the coats.)
White madrases for shirts and waists are in such a comprehen-
sive assortment that one does not need to "shop around" to find
just what they are wanting,
At 25, 35, 40, 50 and £9 cents; 32 inches wide.
Second Floor "• *
If There's Damaged Table Linen
to Be Replaced—We Have
Each with a special price that is near to the fourth less than the
same qualities are usually sold for.
For $3.49: Ail-linen, satin damask, scalloped, round table clotht, 68x68
Inches, in several popular patterns.
For $1.75: All-linen, silver bleached, scalloped, square tablecloths, 00x63
inches, in assorted patterns.
For $1.15: A dozen extra large (22x22 inches) napkins, hemmed, mer-
cerized materials, assorted patterns.
For $1.89: A dozen all-linen, 19x19 inch, hemmed, full bleached napkins,
In assorted patterns.
ftrrond Finer
Saul Wolfson & Co.
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Describing a Dozen Charm-
ing Summer Frocks That
Are Newly Arrived
Each one being distinctive of some very new and popular evo-
lution of fashion, none of which, to the best of our belief, having
been shown before in San Antonio.
The garments listed below Jre taken from somewhat near a
hundred that we have received during the past week.
At $30— A suit with a skirted Eton jacket of Copenhagen linen
crash with white crepe collar, cuffs and white crochet buttons. The
skirt and vestee are of embroidered white crepe finished with a wide
foot hem of Copenhagen crash.
At $8.50—A suit in Russian blouse style coat and plain skirt in
natural color linen crash. Ornamented with a ratine collar and band
at the closing in blue and natural.
At $8.50—A dress of loose-weave white crepe with jacket and
foot hem of blue and whiter material with the white of the skirt car-
ried into f vestee effect.
At. $17.50—Black and white striped eponge dress in Balkan
style, finished in green Gipsy sash. The collar and cuffs are of white
eponge with heavy Bulgarian embroidery.
At $18.50—A dress in Balkan style, with white eponge skirt and
rose-colored jacket. Black sash, heavy lace collar and cuffs, black
and white fancy buttons.
At $18.50—A dress in rose eponge with draped skirt and bloused
waist wth Chinese sleeves. Bulgarian embroidered lingerie collar
and cuffs and soft kid belt.
At $18.50—A dress of pink eponge in Russian style, finished in
blue-edged white ratine embroidery and embossed leather belt round
lace collar.
At $15—Copenhagen eponge in Russian style. Marie1 Antoinette
embroidered lingerie collar and cuffs, red kid belt and military frog
ornaments with red buttons.
At $30—Dress of ecru crepe with insertions of lace, embroidered
with heavy motifs in red and green, rose sash.
At $42.50—A ratine brocaded net with draped skirt, wide rose
moire sash. One-sided rever of heavily embroidered white crepe.
Crystal buttons with buried red rosebuds.
At $35—A frock with an underbody of white net, the skirt fin-
ished in a deep flounce of white crepe with hand-drawn bands. The
overdrapery is of white voile embroidered ;n tiny green and rose
floral motifs.
At $20—A white crepe dress, finished with a heavy embroidery
and lace yoke and ornamented with daisy design embroidery in blue,
blue velvet sash.
Second lloor
The woman whose embonpoint is somewhat accen-
tuated may very easily attain, without discomfort, straight
lines and uncorseted appearance of her more slender sis-
ter. For them we have
RENGO BELTS
which are made of a specially woven, light and durable materia re*
inforced where the strain is greatest ;by straps of the material.
The hip and abdomen are comfortably and firmly sustained and
molded into fashionable lines by elastic webbing.
They are $3. > r.t i ' i »;«<i
Skilled, corsetieres to assist. •
Third Floor i
The Individual Service of
Our Millinery Ateliers
Is Very Noteworthy
Women who come with well defined ideas of how
they would like their summer hat to look, may con-
fidently leave the execution to the skill of our artisans
American and Overseas Inspiration
Will be intermingled with our own original ideas of
color scheme and artistic arrangement.
Those who are familiar with our millinery section
will not need to be told that we have been very alert
in keeping its individuality up to a high degree of ef-
ficiency and reasonable prices that are not usually
associated with an equal degree of art.
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San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 117, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 27, 1913, newspaper, April 27, 1913; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth432432/m1/28/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.