One conspicuous sign of the general' relief was that everyone rushed out! to buy. On Tuesday and Wednesday the shopmen stood sadly about empty shops. On Thursday and Friday they could not move fast enough. Coats, hats, chosen and shoes, furniture, things, fruit, lowe and sundries; everything was being lavish bought. The autumn season, will Be a success for the retail trade at But a business man tells me, that this reaction thas spread to all trade. For several weeks past there! is no denying that business has been
fare a good (or bad) indication. Ju "the "doldrums. Motor-car_sales August this year barely half as many cars were sold as in the same month. a year Now there is a sudden demand for new cars although the
lay up their cars for the winter. time is near' when many motors has been said cynically said that 10 the world were known for certain to be coming to an end, say, a fort night hence, the whole human race would burst into an orgy of pro digality. Well, the optimists say that the Munich conversations are really to be the beginning of a very brave new world. So there you are. We celebrate by buying new hats and new bedroom suites.
"Beauty Draws Us—"
The Women's Fair at Olympia is almost entirely "devoted to aids to beauty with special emphasis on how to do your hair. Every second stall has a hairdresser perpetually demontrating on resigned models. There} fare other forms of demonstration. One firm has imported a theatrical beauty chorus, who wear less than you would believe it possible with out interference by the L.C.C, and fon their shoulders and arms beauly artists continually paint designs. of hearts, cupids, fowers and so forth, with lipstick.' There is also, on the upper floor 'a "Lane of Loveliness" where exquisite creatures dressed as Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, the beauitu Miss Gunnings, Lady Hamilton and other famous beauties of history sit in cages and stare at each other. They are particularly meant to show the styles of hair-dressing adopted in the past. For the moment it is pre [scribed that we are to continue using' the Edwardian up swept style, for which {the autumn coats and hats have been Jdesigned. After Christmas Roman colt-[tures are prophesied. Meanwhile the fashionable colour for hair is to be red, though the exact tint has not 'Set' been decided, But surely" this Gopends largely on the shape and colour of face and even the size of the owner. One can think of carroll girls who were obviously meant by fature to be carrots and not even fauburns, still less the "port wine" red which is threatened as the newest colour.
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