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GLAMOROUS

MEN RUSHING TO BUYGRANDMOTHER

SIX SUITS AT ONCE

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Housewives, too, join in the big West End rush for woollen goods

by EILEEN ASCROFT

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LONDON. The demand for top utility coats SURVEY of 12 lead to enormous and coats from well-

houses

cleared ing London stores re- almost as soon as they are put veals soaring sales of

on the standa. Many women women's and men's outer now, buy two coats Instead of wear, wool underclothing, one, an expensive model and a blankets, carpets, woollen utility. furnishing materials, utility furs and knitting wools.

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It is the male shopper who is leading the rush, scared by stories of woollen sults rising to £60 and the possible shortago of good utility clothes.

Ever since increases in raw wool prices were announced and it became clear that the cost of many woollen articles would rise, stores have reported

salca increased

and customers.

.

Second demand from women

able prices" and the third: "I don't really need them, but you. never know. When the last wer started I had no stocks of any- thing."

FUR COATS, TOO

of another store The buyer told me they had had to insilė tute ди unofficial rationing

is for woollen underwear, Best scheme for blankets to prevent) quality vesta and panties are large buying up of utility for supplied on small quotas, and

later resale. The same store most stores have not been able

Christmas of the de. reports very early to meet a quarter mand.

buying of toys, caused by fear of rising prices, and big sales of baby's wool layettes and proma due to possible future shortage of wool and metals.

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Buyer of Bond Street lingerie department reports an enormous sale of housecoats in pure wool, and says many

10 shoppers tend

buy whole Utility fur coats' have never trousseaux these days instead of been in such demand. Women one item only. In the gown know that prices will shoot, up

stocks more department of the same store after present

LTO EX- women are ordering as many as hausted by as much as 40 par- six wool dresses at a time, cont. oblivous of future fashion changes,

.

OFF THE PEG

One large store, catering for both men and Wames, reporta ISOTO minle customers than women through its doors during the last weeks. Men's suits are selling three times as many as normally, men who usually buy one suit are buying two, in some enase four, and many customers are ordering six or seven at a time instead of their usual one SA DOLB01.

BLANKETS BOOM:

So big has been the demand, for wool coats, costumes and trocks in one shop that supplies have become a serious problem "Difficulty these days,” the buyer, told me, is not to get customers but merchandise,"

Blankets are household top- sollers. A check on three of the There is a tendency, too, for biggest blanket departments in the former made-to-measure the West End reveals doubled customer to

with sales and barely enough utility stock up

to meet demand. several good_quality ready-to--" wear suite off the peg.

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Men's overcoats are selling in three times their normal num

of gaberdine Supplier raincoats and West of England dual-purpose coats cannot meet the demand.

Many men who do not need new suits at present are laying in stocks of suit lengths, particu- larly medium-weight worsteds and suilings at £4-27 a yard.

"We've never been so busy in

the whole alstory of the store, reports one women's cont buyer.

One of the biggest für stores in London has managed to meet demanda to date, but they hope it will euro soon, as future supplies. are uncertain.

The managing director told me to- day that he prepared normal stock to last the whole winter, but when the rush started it was cleared in 10 days. Chief request is for hard-wearing full- length coats.

AND CARPETS

From the Strand come reports of a large increase in the sale of carpets. People who have post- poned renewals since the war Women know that when are hurrying to buy them now, present stocka are exhausted. And a Knightsbridge store com« unless the Board of Trade In stocks of knitting wools prices are bound to rise, and ments that customers are laying raises the celling prices, stocks may become very scarce,

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NEW CHURCH

Paris.

A Very Remarkable Island

It, Grew Same Very Strán

By MAX TRELL

66 VES," General Tin was saying. to Kaarfand Haid, the. Bhadows with the turned-about names, once'

lived on an faland where the most remarkable plants and flowers grow.T

and trea used to

and

"Like apple and peach and plum trees?" said Hanid,

geranium plants, "Like rose bushes and plants that?" said Knart.

General Tin shook his head. "Nothing like these common

of plants and trees at all! Island had only as I said before the

most

remarkable plants and trees and flowers, For instance, right in front of the house where I lived thera drew

a gigantic eletria fan tree."

was

When General Tin needed

button, he just picked one,

An

་ ་ . olcotric Tan treel?? ex- thorns.

Same

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decorated by loading modem artists fins aroused a storm of leaves fell of, so it made noch were us thin as thread,

criticism.

The church is Our iamorous modmother" by Of All the Graces, at in the Haute Savoie.

the U.5. National Federation. of Grandmothers' Clubs. Here she is handing a slap to WI- lam Holden in her most re-

"Sunset cent film

Boule [vard,"

Marlene Dietrich, now in London for a new film, geta the title of "the most zuman- ife grandmother." (London Express Service),

BOY KING FLIES HOME

the

There's

controversial barri and Hanid both, agrees: scissors tree, a

·and

of them had claimed Knarf and Hanidin tiny holes in them. They were absolute astonishment.

neodles, And some of them had A Warm Day

little bends. They were pins.'

Hanid "said: "It would have "Exactly. The leaves whirled round and round, causinga been wonderful... General' Tin, nins cool breeze to blow into my bid 90uant to

you had

plant, toor parlour. On a worm day it

"Or

'course)"

"It wasn't to have y delightful

called a thread

It was The opening and consecration of a French church wintertime, of course, all the of the vine was shaped like

electric fan tree going. In the called a spool vine. The bottom And the vine branches, at pil breeze need for

10 any

breeze in the wou

wound themselves around The wind blows Lady planned

wintertime.

ows around the spool. I also had a enough," KA

thimble tree Assy, church.

Father Devery, who is him that the electric fan tree must an inch plant. self an artist, sald, "I would indeed have been a wonderful Knarf wanted to know.

"What's an inch plant?" like to have accepted Picasso's tree to have. virgin, but it would have con- "Can't we grow one?" sold.

Remarkable Plant - fused" worshippers."

"An inch plant," said Gen- said General Tin. But eral Tin, "was one of the most Religious critics complain Father Devemy was sent to he

remarkable plants in my gar- that many artists who decorated Assy 10 years ago suffering from he went on, "under my bed den. It grew straight up, like

church pre atheists, tuberculosis.

When it was twelve room window. I had a whole ruler. Communists, And He found there was no church row of button bushes. I'm inches high it became a foot, 1 for 2,000 invalids In Assy quite sure you've never seen a mean to say, a foot high. When sanatorium, and he asked the real button bush."

It grew three feet high, it be- French architect Novering to

two Shadows said they came a yardstick. It was a very design one,

handy plant. You just broke if The church is Uke a mountain chalet

The blossoms ing

In either?

It was consecrated by the Bishop of Annecy after many weeks of controversy.

the anarchists, fellow travellera..

Many parishioners refuse to enter the church for Masses.

They my

the church is a "hideous museum of atheistic

modern art.”

im

But French artists and art critics say it is the most portant church built this cen- tury,

Some of the world's best. known artists contributed to the decorations.

fat had button bushes blossom o and went around measur-

all

Atheist Fernand Leger đên (2% ear round.

signed &

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are button

we grow `uny of them "No, Knart, we can't. They don't grow in our gardens,”

Why don't they?

IV's

hardly have to tell you) spectacular mosaic: dre, exactly like buttons, fresco of a biblical scene

in modernistic style. · · ·

buttons, black buttons, Fellow traveller: Larcat, and buttons, and buttons of of the most eminent French other colour, There is nothing "Because," answered · Gen- Leaving England. usezpected-

tapestry artiste, designed a 183 more useful them a button eral Tin, they have to be ly to return to his own country. They include Matisse, Braque, foot square tapestry represent buab. you've lost a button watered with blue rain. --Ang was 15-year-old King Feisal of Fernand, Leger, Chagall ing the struggle of life and of your cost, all you have to the rain that falls

here fan't Jean death.

do is pick a button of the right blue.

just water, which Buyers on the whole are not Irak, who is at school at Har- Roucault, Bazalne, and

Maties decorated the altar site and colour off the bullon len't any colour at all. I worried by this rush of public row, He flow' home with his Ircat......

Experts say the church is with a figure of Saint Dominic said General Tin, "I did it many could grow the most wonder...

bush and sew it on. And i would rain blue

Tale. buying. After last year's warm mother, Queen Aliyah, who has winter and a bad, wet summer, had a serious operation in Lon worth nearly £1,000,000 as a using Father Devemy a

times."

ful and remarkable things. But business don, they are glad to see brisk again. Supplies are their

work with artist gave their The abstract artist, Braque, sal we grow one of them?" until it does, we have to get I asked three women in the biggest headache, but at present

pins and needles and King Feisal will probably be work without payment,

designed the tabernacle door Communist Pablo Picasso was with a fish motif.

replied blanket - section

Gen- spools of thread. of an Oxford they are able to meet most de away two or three months. But

eral

those Street store why they were buy-

Ono will not be inter- asked to design u ́virgin. And they all agree hin udies mands.

mystified parishioner, button bush I had a large things at the store. who refuses to enter the church, needle-and-pin bedge..

Knart and Hanid really kept Bagdad will give him lessonia)ing two ways at once,

said: "The new church is more looked (unless you looked care wishing for blue rain. But rioflum at Harrow.

incled by Father / Destiny - who Christianity,"

many manufacturers will not be able to produce within those prices and pay the enormously increased price for raw wool.

museum of modern art,

He

model.

H

next to my and buttons, und 37,"nd selendrs

ing. The first sald she was bus that money shortage is an im-rupted. An English tutor in produced an abstract face, look

portant brake on panie hoarding according to his present cur- The Picasso virgin wan re suited for devil worship than fully) like, & horn bush. But though they waited, and walled

ing routine replacements; the

second: "My husband says pure wool will disappear at reagon-

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