CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN LONDON
ASTONISHING PRICES BkirNG PAID. (Uec. November 21, 11.15 p.m.) London, November 18. West End shopkeepers assert that a record Christmas shopping is being done. The great stores ,••■ ' 11 ready crowded, as in December of o! years. As much as .£sl) is being given ..>r ornate hand bags, nnd 2'tO guineas for dressing-bass, There are remarkable displays of costly underclothing. Two hundred guineas is ihe mice for fur coals. No one seems lo know where Ihe money comes from, but shopkeepers surmise that war profiteers, who hitherto have invested their earning.-, are now allowing their wives to spend, and Ihe wear and fear of war is being replenished.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 7
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113CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN LONDON Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 7
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