This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...draping in graceful folds, or will let down and form a warm, useful skirt, longer than the one, below, which then takes the place of a petticoat; on the principle of the very useful riding habit introduced by this firm some time since, which by the same easy contrivance, when required, can be transformed into skirts of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...draping in graceful folds, or will let down and form a warm, useful skirt, longer than the one, below, which then takes the place of a petticoat; on the principle of the very useful riding habit introduced by this firm some time since, which by the same easy contrivance, when required, can be transformed into skirts of a walking length--a great boon for travelling. Now that tailormade costumes arc so much the fashion, ladies will find the exquisitely fitting cloth and homespun suits and jackets made by Mr. Benjamin particularly templing. The same firm has a speciality for well-cut polonaises of light grey cloth with velvet revers, and pockets as well as for both ladies' Ulsters and travelling cloaks, and every variety of ladies' jackets. vicugna and other warm cloths are still as much worn as in former years, and arc now exclusively trimmed with fur; and accompanying these are muffs of the same material edged with fur. Ulster Mouse has made a-name for itself in the matter of Children's Ulsters and cloth suits, and here may be had the leather petticoats which have been so much in request of late.--Queen, Oct. 31st, 1874. HpHE R7r. RIDING HABIT, 4 4. to 7 7s. 'pHE WATERPROOF SPENCER, 355. to 45. HTHE ULSTER and HIGHLAND PLEATED & KILTED-L DRESSES, 7o.JQ ioox. - nrHETAILORS' IMPROVED POLONAISE, 70s. to 90J. NkAV POLONAISE WALKING DRESS.--That indefatigablc caterer for the ladies, Mr. Benjamin, of Ulster House, Conduit Street, is again in the field with an Improved Polonaise Walking Dress. Though in view of the recent torrid weather it seems almost out of place to speak of dresses made of woollen materials at all, yet it is not always May, and even in spring and summer the chilly and damp days of our changeable tlimate often make a woollen ...
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