3-074-910 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Spence's Velveteens, 1883. 'NEW MAKE...Great improvements both in MAKE and FINISH of all SPENCE'S QUALITIES of COLOURED and BLACK VELVETEENS this Season. PRICES NOT INCREASED. The No. 2 Quality is a Rich Guaranteed "Fast Pile" Velveteen, at 2s. 9d. per yard. All the Newest Shades can be had in this cloth. Qualities Nos. 3 and 4 surpass in SOFTNESS and BEAUTY any Velveteens yet produced; both are the IMPROVED TWILLED Back, and the Pile cannot be removed by the HARDEST Wear. ALL PATTERNS SENT FREE ON APPLICATION TO ANY PART OF THE GLOBE. LADIES' DRESSES AND THE PARCELS POST. Every Lady in Great Britain, and, in fact, all over the world, can dress fashionably and economically if she purchase direct...through the new Parcels Post. Spence's System of sending Patterns of all the Latest Novelties in dress has proved one of the greatest boons. Ladies residing in the country or abroad can choose their dresses at home from the splendid assortment of patterns sent, saving time and trouble...The new Winter patterns, Silks, Dresses,...Mantle, and Ulster Cloths, now ready. Sent free, on application, to all parts of the globe...All goods dispatched the same day as order received'. JAMES SPENCE and CO., St. Paul's-churchyard, London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.