A Clarion Call to all Good Sale Hounds An event of the shopping year is Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw's After-stocking Sale. This year excess stock valued at about $250,000 has to be got rid of. Prices have been so cut down that a "Half-Price Sale" would be its more exact title.
We will begin at corsets—which should be the natural start for all intelligent purchasers. Fashion, Sid-ley, Formfit, Kleinert, are all to be sold at well under half price. Aertex cellular corsets for summer wear, formerly $17.50, are now $7.50. Brassiéres—Hollywood crêpe de chine models—actually begin at 75 certs! (There is a technical reason for what otherwise would be quite unbelievable prices—the corsets and brassieres lore hat called "broken ranges," that is there is not full range of fittings.) Celanese silk vests of super qua are being sold also less than half price.
Linen suits new ask for attention at $25, reduced from $39.50, and tweed suits are standing at $29 from a former $45. A few tweed swagger coats for Spring are here too. American washing frocks, particularly good in fit and cut, are all to be sold at $5 d $7.50. Particular appeal to sportswoman will be made by the Celanese silk sports shirts ət the wonderful price of $3.50—the explanation being that some of them soiled. Knitted white, ere all to maskee original dered blouses, e to go at $3.59
Peel, Webfi Connor, formerly $8.50 to $25, figure from $2.50 to $7.50. You may even find American Spring straws at $1 to $1.50—perfectly marvellot White Web-flex felts—very slightly soiled—reach their apex at $5.
"Broken rang for the count in shoes— ties, brogues, 50 from $29 and $35. Summer san and tinens are asking one-third of their Bags are always good at White-sway's—now is the time to pick up a really good quality evening bag or leather day bag.
Do you want to smarten up the house for the coming warm weather? A modest number of grass mats and carpets await snapping up. Another plum is Nairn's Scotch linoleum at $1 and $1.95 a yard. Reversible floor rugs are $2.95 and good English hair-cord stair-carpeting is reduced to $5.95 a yard from $12.50. Household linens, curtains, cretonnes—now is your opportunity. Glassware and ironmongery, too, must not be forgotten.
"A word on the men and my is done..." Here is a story worth listening to because it is true—concerning the New Standard Viyella socks, of which a limited number are to be sold at $225 a pair or three pairs for $6.50. In March of last year a man bought six pairs of these socks to wear on home leave. He has worn them continuously ever since and not a single hole has yet appeared in them. The reason? They are absolutely unshrinkable and, there being no strain upon them where, they do not go into holes. I predict that Whiteaways have as good as said goodbye to their "limited number" of- pairs.
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