mmam till m mst msms 9 HERE I’ve been, worried stiff and didn’t know what to do or where to turn for Kelp. It’s all very well to laugh, but I didn’t know. I’m a typiste, and for a long while I wondered how other girls got away with it. I knew they were not earning any more money that -1 did, yet they always seemed ever so much better dressed than I was. I wondered and wondered until one day, when I was taking dictation from the Managing Director of the company for which I work, his wife called to see him. After she had gone, I remarked what a smart NEW frock she was wearing. He laughed and .laughed—l felt quite uncomfortable, he laughed so much. Then he told me. It wasn’t a new frock at all, but one which had been to The City Dye Works. He pointed out that frocks of that material weren’t procurable to-day but everybody, men and women, had plenty of clothes of good material that were being made like new again by sending to The City Dye Works. In fact, he said, the majority of what appear to be new Suits and new Frocks are not new at all, but represent the skilful work of The City Dye Works. Every man ... or woman . . . can always be well dressed if they regularly use the services of The City Dye Works . . . and, oh boy! don’t you save money, too! “Sturt the week well” . . . Phone 12-846 and The City Dyef Works will call jor your work . , . then there are the COA- 1 * VENIENT City Depots . . . IN THE OCTAGON, two doors below Butterfields . . . IN HIGH STREET just above Jacobs . . . and 137 George Street,
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Evening Star, Issue 24103, 26 January 1942, Page 7
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287Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 24103, 26 January 1942, Page 7
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