AN ODD SIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 14

AN ODD SIGHT

"Curious things happen quite casually in London, and very often go unremarked, unless you happen to have your eyes well open when you walk about the street," says a London correspondent. "The other day, as I was going down Upper Brook street, I saw a well-dressed woman hurry across from a houso to her car, carrying a pair of shoes in one hand and several dresses in the other. A few moments later she was followed by another woman similarly laden, and I caught a glimpse of several more women in the hall of the house. What they were doing I could not think, but later I was told that they belong to a society dress syndicate. Even generous dress allowances do not go so very far nowadays, and a syndicate has been formed for selling smart frocks at inexpensive prices. The members of the syndicate send in from time to time the clothes.which they no longer like or want, and the clothes are all labelled with the price the owner expects for them. The buying is done by other members and their friends, and since tho syndicate does not run to a parcel department clothes are carried away as they are bought. If you have not a car of your 'own I suppose you take paper and string with you and make a neat parcel of your purchases before you board your homeward bus."