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Boys' and Girls' Munsing
Union Suits $1.95
" 1000 garments are included in this unusual
January sale special.
Extra fine mercerized lisle medium weight
union suits of the nationally famous "Munsing"
make.
High neck, long sleeves, ankle length style in
white only. Half open front for girls, full open
front for boys.
All sizes. Great values at $1.95.
Meier A Frank's: Knit Underwear Shop, Main Floor.
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January Apparel Sales
Every single garment in the Fashion Salons has had its
price cut to a lower figure coats, suits, dresses, skirts, all are
included. Every garment is straight from our regular stocks.
It is made just as well as though the full price were being asked.
Splendid Suits at $20
Were $29.50 to $48.50
Odd one and two-of-a-kind suits made of fine wool materials.
Usually plainly tailored and without fur so that they can be
worn late in the spring. Majority silk lined. Navy, oxford,
Algerian red and light colors. Broken sizes.
Suits at $32.65 Were $55 to $62.50
Suits at $41.45 Were $65 to $98.50
Two wonderful groups of distinguished suits in black, brown,
oxford, navy, tan, Copenhagen. Wool jersey, peach bloom, silver
tone, duvet superior and velveteen. Many are richly trimmed
with fur. Some plainly tailored without fur. Practically all
sizes.
Velveteen Dresses $24.38 to $86.25
Were $32.50 to $115
Rich-looking frocks for afternoon and informal evenings. Many
with pretty lace collars. Black, blue and other colors. Only one
or two of a kind.
Tricotine Dresses $49.50 to $112.50
Were $55 to $150
Such frocks can be worn easily with furs throughout the en
tire spring. In addition to the regular sizes there are a number
of extra sizes in 44, 46 and 48.
Serge Dresses $14.85
Were $19.50 to $25
Wool jersey as well as serge
for everyday wear. Plain, em
broidered and braid trimmed.
Black, navy, brown, burgundy.
Street Dresses $18.85
Were $29.50 to $32.50
French finish serge and trico
tine in navy, black and other
color's. Not all sizes in each
style, but excellent variety.
Every Winter Coat Is Reduced
$140.00 to $185.00 Coats, Now $98.50
$95.00 to $9850 Coats, Now $68.50
$57.50 to $65u00 Coats, Now $39.50
And a great many other coats at lower and higher prices
tan be had at proportionate savings.
At $39.50 to $98.50 are bolivia, peachbloom, evora,
duvetyn, velour, many with large collars and cuffs
of squirrel, beaver, fox, wolf and nutria.
Skirts Are Decidedly Less
$18.50 to $20.00 Skirts, $11.85
$15.75 to $17.50 Skirts, $ 9.45
$12.50 Skirts $ 7.45
Tricotine, serge and tweeds in wanted styles and
colors. Almost every woman needs an extra skirt
some time or another and this is her opportunity.
Many Reductions Not Advertised
Meier & Frank's: Apparel Shop. Fourth Floor.
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Thirty-Inch Fur Sport
The January Sales affect for the first time these fur coats
best suited to Portland winters. Being only 30 inches long
they are not bulky, they are not too hot, they are useful,
they are extremely smart. An exceptional assortment. Only
one of a kind.
A plain sealine coat, was $145 $108.75
A plain sealine coat, was $175 $131.23
A sealine coat wiih natural gray squirrel collar and cuffs,
was $298.50 $223.75
Coats Very Much Less
A sealine coat, skunk collar and cuffs, was $350 .$262.50
A plain near-seal (seal dyed coney) coat, was $225. .$168.75
A Hudson seal coat (dyed muskrat) with taupe squirrel collar
and cuffs, was $385 $288.75
A very full plain Hudson seal coat (dyed muskrat), was
$550 $412.50
A plain marmot coat, was $150 $112.50
A marmot coat with border of same fur, was $185. .$138.75
Meier & Frank's: Fur Shop, Fourth Floor.
Two Hats for the Price of One
News Flashed From the Millinery Salons
All holiday merchandise has been moved away and hats
have come into their own once more. Decided reductions
have been made to celebrate. This is the time when almost
every woman feels she ought to have something new to
freshen her spirits and there is nothing that adds such a
spice to one's costume as a new hat.
$12.50 to $18 hats reduced to $7.50 A splendid assortment.
$7.50 to $12 hats at $4.50 Beaver, velour and hatters' plush, in
ready-to-wear styles, excellent for motoring and general utility.
$3.50 to $5.50 unt rimmed hats $1 Considerable variety of shapes.
Mostly black. Think of getting a perfectly good-looking hat for $1.
All other untrimmed hats reduced to half price, now $1.75 to $5;
were $3.50 to $10.
AH flowers, feathers and ornaments a quarter less.
Meier & Frank's: Millinery Shop. Fourth Floor.
Blouses Important January Sale
Five very special groups offered tomorrow ; the values such as come only once or twice a year,
ity perfectly fresh and ready to wear ; some may need pressing. A few of the styles are pictured.
Major-
$1.25 to $1.50 Waists
69c
A clearaway of white voile waists.
Sizes 36 to 46, but not in each style.
So inexpensive that they will be bought
by the half dozen and saved for spring.
$4 to $5 Waists
$2.45
Georgette crepe or silk crepe de chine,
also voile or organdy. Sizes 36 to 44
in the lot, but not in each style. Flesh,
white, gray, bisque, a few dark colors.
$5.00 to $7.50 Blouses
$3.95
Georgette crepe, satin, crepe de chine
and taffeta in flesh, white, bisque, navy,
black. High, low and round necks. A
remarkable assortment.
$12.50 to $16 Blouses at $7.45
Georgette crepe and satin in Cuba red, navy, white, flesh,
taupe, black, brown. Wide variety of styles; plain or with
embroidery.
$9 to $75 Blouses, $6.75 to $56.25
This season's distinguished models in long and short blouses
for street and elaborate dress occasions. White and dark
colors, including black.
Meier & Frank's: Blouse Shop, Fourth Floor.
An old-fashioned sale with a new meaning, a new method and a i
new merit. ki
January Sales as of yore but with this important further appli .' '
cation TO BRING DOWN LIVING COSTS. t.
A new merchandising method in their making: New conditions
had to be met with old abundant quantities were lacking and old
reliable qualities did not come unasked.
But we were determined to maintain in the face of whatever dif
ficulties the continuity of our programme so steadfastly followed
during 1919 to bring down living costs.
Laces, Georgette
Crepe 89c
$1.25 to $2 Grades
Shadow and filet lace flounces 18 and
27 inches wide; net top laces 6 to 9 inches
wide; allover shadow laces 18 and 36
inches wide; metal novelty laces 18 inches
wide, and metal bandings 4 to 7 inches
wide are included in this wonderful col
lection for winter and spring sewing.
In the lot are additional prizes of
georgette crepe printed with floral pat
terns on white grounds; for dresses and
blouses; limited quantity.
Our $2.25 to $2.75
Georgette $1.69
Just 400 yards of pretty 40-inch
georgette crepe for blouses and danc
ing frocks. White, flesM, black, navy,
green, brown and pastel shades. Less
than today's wholesale price.
Meier & Frank's: Main Floor.
Corsets Samples
and Odd Lines Reduced Now
$1 to $5.95
Sizes 22 to 36 in the assortment, but not
in each price group. Corsets of our standard
makes in plain coutil or brocades, but sold
down to a few of a kind, so we want to hurry
them out to their future owners.
American Lady corsets, special $1 and
$1.95
Madame Irene corsets of extraordinary
quality, special $3.95
Madame Lyra corsets, special $4.95
Frolaset front-lace corsets, $5.95
Melr Frank's: Corset SThop. Third Floor.
A Warm Wave Is on the Way!
Note These New Sweater Prices
$13.95 for $15.00 to $24.00 Kinds
$17.50 for $21.50 to $42.50 Kinds
Popular styles which have sold down to three,
four or five of a kind.
At $13.95 are the splendid Swiss sweaters of brushed
wool pictured, the youthful Co-Ed models for young folk
and the good-looking Tuxedo and ruff-neck styles for
sports wear. Blue, pink, purple, heather mixtures, oxford,
gray and so on.
In the $17.50 group are golf coats of brushed wool some
times combined with silky angora. Effective mackinaw
plaid coats are illustrated. Then there are the plain col
ored coats with plaid mufflers, warm and picturesque, also
all plain colors with Tuxedo collars. Variety of colors.
Splendid for golf, motoring, hiking.
Meier & Frank's: Sweater Shop. Third Floor.
House Dresses
Six Special Groups at $1.98,
$3.98, $4.98, $5.95, $6.95 to $12.50
SAMPLES many less than today's wholesale cost
Made of excellent -jaercale and gingham in checks, plaids
and solid colors, trimmed with embroidery, braid and col
ored piping.
The $5.95 dresses in attractive voiles come in sizes 36
to 40.
All the others are in sizes 16, 18, 20 years and will
fit small women.
Cover-All Aprons 98c,
$1.49, $1.98
Splendid values among them for the housekeeper.
Straight line and Billie Burke models in solid colors or in
light and dark figured percales. Some are bound with
white or contrasting colors. A few are of gingham. Not
every size in each style, but sizes 36 to 44 in the lot.
Extra Size Aprons $1.79
Sizes 46 to 52, in capacious coverall aprons of good
quality, which large women will appreciate.
Meier & Frank's:
Third Floor. Sixth Street.
Swinging Stand Frames
$1.49
500 swinging stand picture frames in at
tractive carver! effects. Beautifully fin
ished in burnished antique gold. All are
complete with glass and back. All sizes
from cabinet to 8x10 inches.
Wopderful values for the January sales
at $1.49.
Meier & Frank's: Picture Shop. Fifth Floor.
Veilings 49c
'-Almost every kind of veil any
one can want. Plain and novelty
meshes, fashionable scroll pat
terns, popular chenille dotted
shadow designs, filet meshes,
French and aeroplane designs
and becoming complexion veil
ing. Plenty of black, taupe,
brown, navy, purple.
Meier & Frank's: Main Floor.
Bringing Dqw
S5.00 Bed Spreads $3
Three-quarter size crochet bedspreads, scalloped, with cut lJ
3tKUu rea opreaas jpt
Hemmed crochet spreads of excellent quality. . ! "
Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. W .
Pillow Cases 35c
Serviceable quality pillow cases in tne 4xo0-incn size
Dozen special at $4. . i
Meier ft Frank's: Second Floor.
$2.00 Sheets $1.50
Good quality sheets. Size 72x90 inches.
$2.50 Sheets $1.75
These are in the 81x90 size.
Meier ft Frank's: Si cond Floor.
35c Nainsook 25c
Excellent grade nainsook in the 36-inch width.
Meier ft Frank's : Second Floor. I-
10-Yard Piece Longcloth $2
Fine soft-finished longdoth, yard wide.
Meier & Frank's : Second Floor, j
$2.00 Cotton Batts $1.50
2- lb. cotton batts in full comfort size.
$3.00 Cotton Batts $2.50
3- lb. cotton batts in full comfort sire.
Meier ft Frank's: Second Floor. J
50c Ginghams 39c
32-inch ginghams in plaids and stripes.
Meier ft Frank's : Second Floor, f V
50c Shirtings 39c
32-inch woven madras shirtings in all striped patterns.
Meier ft Frank's: Second Floor, i
$4.00 Coatings $2.98
Dark colored coatings ranging from 50 to 54 inches wide.
For womens' everyday garments and misses' school coats.
Meier ft Frank's: Second Floor.
Fur Remnants Half Price
75c to $23.75 were $1.50 to $47.50 a yard, one to twelve- !
inch fur trimmings including coney, nutria, skunk, opos- t
sum. Eight and one-half inch Hudson seal (dyed musk- i
rat) a third less. Limited quantity. No pieces will be
cut.
Meier ft Frank's: Main Floor.
Ribbons! Ribbons! RIBBOti
Ribbons J Price
Hundreds of pieces to select from in this half-price I
offering;.
Fancy ribbons taken from regular stock of this season's I
patterns.
Beautiful jacquards, metallic embroidered effects, j;
printed warps, etc
Wonderful colors.
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Wanted Housew
Aluminum Boiler
$1.47
t -quart Betty Bright alumi
num double boiler for rice or
milk. 2-quart size $1.79.
Cup and Saucer
Each 34
Regular 50c fancy decorated
Nippon china cups and saucers
specially priced for the January
sales at each 34c.
Aluminum Kettle I
$3.39
4-quart "Lifetime" alumi-J
num inset tea kettle. Size ojj
inset is one quart.
Cake Sets $2.69 f
Regular $3.25-$S.50 fancjl
decorated Nippon china cakeg
plate and six individual platesf
900 Good Brooms at 54? Each
Housewives do not need to be told how exceptional is this
offering. A special purchase brings 900 of these good Po
land-made brooms of genuine broom com (no filler) with fouf
red seams, wire run-down finish, polished handle securely
bound with wire. While any remain 54c.