LONDON’S RICH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3344, 24 November 1919, Page 6

LONDON’S RICH.

RECORD CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. i u—-ll—-- ’ ‘ West End shopkeepers assert that! ‘there -is" Ilecord Christmas‘ shopping, The great stores are already crowded, as in December in other years. Fifty pounds is given for ornate hand bags, and 2.4ogns for dressing bags. There are" remarkable displays of costly underelothing. Two hundred guineag is the price for fur coats. No one seems to know where the money eomes from, but shop-keepers surmise that war profiteers, who 1~.-itherto invested their earnings, are now allowixag their Wives to spend, and'the wear and ‘rear of war is being replenished.