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Show I AdvanceA . f ( , CORSETS ATW PRICES " TjOR more than twenty years it has been our aim and ambition to -1- keep Nemo Corsets, with their invaluable special health and fashion features, within the reach of the great masses of women to whom the Nemo special service is an imperative necessity. To keep Nemo prices down, in the face of a tremendous increase in cost of production, we have willingly made heavy sacrifices during the past three years. Nevertheless, slight advances on certain models have been made, but with utmost I reluctance and under pressure of unavoidable conditions. . FIRST ADVANCE ON WONDERLIFT MODELS But, despite the steadily rising cost of nearly all corset materials U (some have more than doubled in price) we have continued to sell J NEMO WONDERLIFT CORSETS one of the most valuable of all k corset inventions at their ORIGINAL PRICES of four years ago; , for we fully realize that they give vitally necessary hygienic service to many thousands of women. We have been hoping for some change in the material and labor markets that LJ would enable us to avoid an increase in Wonderlift prices. Now, however, we are U H compelled to announce an increase of $1.00 in the price of the popular $5.00 models, rpr in order that we may maintain their high quality without undue sacrifice of profit. For similar reasons we are obliged to announce an advance of 50 cents in the price of the three Self-Reducing Corsets with the Nemo Relief Bands. j Therefore, we give this advance notice that 1 On and After Monday, February 4, 1918 g j Retail prices will be increased on the following numbers: WONDERLIFT Nos. 553, 554, 555, 556, 557 and;558 $?00 Present Price $5.00 will be . . . . J O SELF-REDUCING Nos. 402, 403 and 405 . ) $C00 Present Price $4.50 will be - . . . j 3 Most women know, from experience, all about the higher cost of nearly everything, and will readily understand that these slight LJ advances represent only a fraction of the higher cost of production. j The new prices are literally forced upon us, by abnormal market Fj , n conditions over which we have no control. k PRINCIPAL STORES EVERYWHERE I K0PS BROS., Mannfactmri .( Nemo Corsets, New York. hfPifflz "FIT AS YOU FASTEN" (It !)) J 1 SSS!,"Give the "UNBROKEN LINE" of Fashion VCjy J A1I Good Stores Various Models-gl.OO and $1.50 1' 'iPfL ilfrJlfLl il51fcz firg7 |