A Wellington tailor states that I,ho rationing of clothing has brought, to him as customers men who would have bought ready-made suits before. The amount of clothing they could buy being limited they wanted the clothing they bought to last as long ns possible, and to get the highest quality they went to the bespoke tailor. Men who previously would have considered a £lO suit was the limit, ot their purse were now paying £l5 to ill for a suit. The Wellington Shakespeare Society will hold n meeting nt Hie Alexander Turnbull Library on Thursday night next. The reading will be "The Merry Wives, of Windsor.”
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 31, 31 October 1942, Page 8
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