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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1920)
TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCIT SO, 1920 Store Closes 5:45 P. M. Out of a Clear Sky ! A Meteoric Sale! Store Opens 9:15 A.M. More Than 1867 TM& Q.UAL1T S TO RE OF- PORTLAND NUN. SixOy Hbrruoiy Afctar 31s, Charge Purchases Today Rendered May 1 8 Madame Lyra Corsets of Pink Brocade Two favorite models for aver age and larger figures are priced at $12 and $15. The first is a topless corset with elastic band at the waist and medium long. The second has a straight, carefully boned back, an elastic gusset over the thigh and low bust. Both are attractively finished. Other fashionable corsets from Madame Lyra and Madame Irene will, help the Easter cos tume to set properly. Meier & Frank's: Corset Shop. Third Floor. Topaz and Ruby Bakelite Beads are cut so that they have almost as many radiant lights as the real stones. New shipment just received for this Easter week. Priced $4 to $15. French "Pearl" Necklaces $2 Lustrous imitation pearl beads imported from Paris. 52-Inch "Pearl" Strings $1.25 A new shipment of these very popular imitation pearls Meier &. Frank's: Jewelry Shop, Main Floor. 5000 Yards Outing 33 c This is the real "Daisy" outing cloth in white. It is one of the best kinds woven. Heavy twilled weave. For outdoor sleeping garments and diapers. 27-inch. Until now it has been 50c yard. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Fifth Street. Specially Priced Vests to Wear With Suits $1.59 Even new Easter suits ought to have a finishing touch of lace this lacy season. So here are some "specials" just arrived for this very purpose. Nel vestees with imitation binche lace. Net with ruffles and Van Dyke points of net or shadow lace. Net with ruffled Valenciennes. Also net with wide ruffles of ecru craquelle lace. All have attached collars. Meier & Frank's: Neckwear Shop. Main Floor. Umbrella Sale! 100 Mens Umbrellas at $U5 600 Women's Umbrellas at $1S 100 Women's Umbrellas at $435 Umbrellas at $1.85 Men's and women's umbrellas that are today selling at $3 whole sale. Bought months ago we offer them now in the heart of Spring showers at away below their former prices. Fast black American cotton taffeta covers. Eight-rib paragon frames. Cord handles of plain ebonoid or of bake-lite trimmed with ebonoid. Women's Umbrellas at $4.85 are of fine gloria with full tape edge, eight-rib paragon frame, handsome bake-lite ring and ebonoid handles. Some with white bake-lite tips. Gloria or silk cases. They were here until now at $5.65 and we cannot duplicate them to sell for so little again. All These Umbrellas are noted for durability. They are practical in every sense of the word. They are large enough to shield any Easter hat and some of them are large enough for two people's hats! Umbrella Rings Half Price Now 38c for white and colored bake-lite rings for umbrella handles. - . Meier & Frank's: Umbrella Shop. Main Floor. Carving Knives and Forks Special Pair 77c Good steel carving knives and forks with cocobolo handles. Knives have eight-inch blades. Forks are two-tined. Both guar anteed steel. A special purchase from a national distributor. Pair 77c. Meier & Frank's: Housewares Section, Basement. $25,000 Worth Men's Thin VALUE-GIVING precedents are set at naught with this half-price disposal. We know, you know, everybody knows, the condition of the market affecting men's things. Our men's furnishings chief actuated by the high ideals of MEIER & FRANK service planned in the face of great difficulties this tremendous, this clear-as-noonday demonstration of MEIER & FRANK ability and will to UNDERSELL with incalculable benefit to patrons. The half-price sale is for everybody we want the widest possible distribution of its economies. Sale prices are for Tuesday and Wednesday while lots last. The merchandise of which there is more than. $25,000 worth invol,red is of standai'd quality, staple, desirable. There are several nationally advertised lines in this sale. Every one of the 22 items listed is offered at exactly half or less than half - the regular price. Extra selling space and extra salespeople have been provided. Our entire Morrison-street window frontage is given over to displays of merchandise. Everybody will be waited on but we ask those who can, especially women buying for men, to shop early. Sale begins promptly at 9:15 in The Store for Men, Main Floor. PLEASE XOTE Some of the shirts in the following groups were slightly soiled in R. R. transit, a trip to the laimdry won't remove. Otherwise the shirts are PERFECT. Nothing to hurt them nothing that Russian Cord Shirts $2.25 , Half price and less for 688 shirts of Russian cord and WOVEN madras regularly $4.50 and $4.85. New spring patterns. Care fully tailored shirts in sizes 14, 14, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17,17 and 18. Soft French cuffs. Woven Madras Shirts $1.50 Half price for 607 woven madras and percale shirts regularly $3.00. Plain and fancy striped patterns. Sizes 14 to 17. Soft cuffs. Men will buy these in half dozen lots. Negliee Shirts $2 Half price for 480 negligee shirts regularly $4.00. Made of fine woven madras cloths and percales. These have collars at tached. Sizes 14 to 17. A No. 1 for sports wear. Wool Flannel Shirts $3.25 Half price for 480 wool mixed flannel shirts regularly $6.50. Gray, navy, brown, heather and khaki. Two-button pockets. Military collars. Silk Knitted Ties $2.50 Half price and less for 200 famously fine English hand-frame knit pure silk ties sub-standards of ?5-00, $6.00 and $7.00 kinds. From the exclusive scarfing house of Blanchard & Price. Superb patterns and colorings solids, stripes, heathers. Sweater Coats $6.25 Half price for 180 shaker knit sweater coats regularly $12.50. Gray, red and white. Made wjth roll collar. Assorted sizes. Sweater Jackets $5 Half price for 120 heather mixed sweater jackets regularly $10.00. Button-down-front. V neck. Suitable for golf and other sports wear. Felt Hals $2.50 Half price for 120 felt hats regularly $5.00. Broken sizes of 'various lines but all sizes in the lot. Spring shades of pearl, gray, green, brown, black. Chalmers Underwear 63c Half price for 360 Chalmers balbriggan shirts and drawers regularly $1.25. Short sleeye shirts, ankle drawers. All sizes. New Suspenders 50c Half price for 216 new suspenders regularly $1.00 pair.. They are made for us by the manufacturers of the famous President suspenders. Lisle web, fine elastic, double stitched leather ends. Ivory Garters 38c Hal price for 288 Ivory silk cable web garters regularly 75c. Fiber Silk Shirts $6 Half price for 324 fiber silk shirts regularly $12.00. High grade shirts of extra heavy fiber silk in solid colors and stripes all popular shades. All first quality. Broken sizes but a good selection. . Silk iMixed Shirts $3.75 Half price and less for 96 silk mixed poplin and satin striped shirts regularly $7.50 and $8.50. These shirts have separate col lars to match. Good patterns, including plain white. Broken sizes. Cotton Flannel Shirts. $1.75 ', Half price for 360 cotton mixed flannel shirts regularly $3.50. Gray, navy and khaki. Two-button pockets. Low and military collars. Sizes 14, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17. Ide and Arrow Collars 12jc Half price for 1200 Ide and Arrow stiff, also Ide and Triangle soft collars regularly 25c. Discontinued numbers and broken lines. Marvelous! "Dent's" Gloves $1.75 Half price for 696 Dent's gloves regularly $3.50. . Every glove has the Dent button. First quality workmanship, second quality skins. Gray, brown and tan. Washable. Spearpoint and em broidered backs. All sizes, including cadets and regulars. Silk Plated Sox 68c Half price for 600 pairs of silk plated two-tone and silk striped sox regularly $1.35. All sizes are included in the selection. Wool and Cotton Sox 38c Half price and less for 1440 pairs heavy 3-lb. cored cotton and wool sox regularly 75c to 85c. For working men, loggers, hikers, campers. Gray and white. All sizes. Cloth Hats $1.50 Half price for 90 cloth hats regularly $3.00. Popular patterns and color combinations light and dark. Broken sizes. While the quantity lasts. Silk Mixed Pajamas $5 Half price for 24 suits of a famous nationally known maker's silk mixed pajamas regularly $10.00. All sizes. Silk Mixed, Pajamas $6.25 Half price for 24 suits of a famous nationally known maker's silk mixed pajamas regularly $12.50. Also 12 suits from the same maker regularly $15.00, now half price at $7.50. Kuin-a-Part Cuff Links 25c Half price for 288 -Kum-a-Part cuff links regularly 50c Meier & Frank's: The Store for Men, Main Floor (Inside Morrison Entrance.) LsUsUjkcJ m Tt Qual it Y Store or Portland rirOv, Sao. Xarrway Alr 3t Charge Purchases Today Rendered May 1 EASTER ' Women's Tailored Suits Chosen Today Will Be Altered in Time for Easter that is of course if any al terations are needed. Among the scores of interest ing tailored suits in the Fashion Salons there are five styles so unusual that we want to tell you about them while there is still, opportunity to have them al tered for Easter. They are of fine materials, beautifully tailored and each one is less than a hundred dollars. Kton coat suits with pquare tucked collar over which Is lalil a shorter plain collar have full wide skirts which should be worn short, they are finished with long black fringed satin sashes at S98.50. A slender silhouette suit with rather long coat Is embroidered in the back and front as shown in the. picture. It has tuxedo collar, narrow belt and slender skirt. $78.50. A more youthful suit with shorter coat has a deep border of embroidery and tuxedo collar at ' S65. Distinguished by very particu lar workmanship is a plain ni6dnl with long panel pockets ot tuck ing and a central panel of tuck ing in the back. The coat Is lined with black and white polka uot foulard. JS5. Another suit with medium length flaring cost is trimmed with wide black Hercules braid and has medium width skirt. Tux"do collar. Naruiv bell. liJ.iO. The last suit is of navy blue serge. All the others are of fine navy tricotinc. Meier & Frank's: Fashion Salons, Fourth Floor. Easter Hals for Miss 6 to 16 Special display will be 'made Tuesday of junior, flapper and mademoiselle hats origi nated by our own milliners or recently received from New York. Tailored hats with ribbon bands or streamers for 6 to 12-year girls are $3, $5, $5.50, $7.50 and to $12.50. 'Fancy straw hats in bright and dark colors are $4.25 upward. For misses of 12 to 16 are all sorts of pretty hats. One with big blue and yellow daisies at $7.50. A. red berry hat at $8.50. Cherry hats of red straw, $6.50. Red hats with straw roses and leaves, $7.50. Draped turbans of batavia cloth, $6.75 and $7. Poke hats with flower wreaths, $7.50. Sports hats of white poplin with rose-colored hemp fac ing, $5.50. Far too many to describe. There will be quantities of these youthful models shown directly facing the Sixth Street elevators. ' Meter & Frank's: Millinery Shop, Fourth Floor. Misses' New Skirls and . - Wool Middies The Girls' Own Shop has just received some particularly fashionable skirts at very mode rate prices. It is not often that accordion pleated crepe de chine skirts can be found this season at $16.50. Either white or navy here at this price. CVeam colored wool jersey skirts are $16.50. Beautiful Shantung pongee in natural color is closely box pleated and bound with cream color at $24. Distinguished tricolette skirts are $25. Accordion pleated white serge skirts are $18. Wool jersey skirts in rose, peacock blue or tan with two-button belts are $13.50. Checked skirts are $15. Wool Jersey Smocks $13.45 The picture shows one of the new accordion pleated serge skirts worn in combination with a jersey smock. This smock is hand embroid ered with chenille. Special $13.45. Girls' New Sports Coats Checks, polo cloth, tweeds and other mate .rials.. Sizes 10 to 16 years. Trices begin at $20. Meier & Frank's: Girls' Shop, Second Floor,