OLD CLOTHES FOR TURKEY
U.S.A. DOES THRIVING TRADE The United States is doing a flourishing business in supplying old clothes for new Turks, a business that centres in a rambling picturesque old khan in a corner of Stamboul, says a correspondent. From America come yearly some 3,000,000 pieces of second-hand clothing, which are dumped into the 400 workrooms of the ancient khan to be repaired by 1,900 workers and then shipped to peasants and townspeople throughout Asiatic Turkey. The most expensive costume after it has been refurbished in the khan sells for 15s, and the cheapest for about one shilling. Often an Anatolian village dandy sports a frayed American dinner jacket that he has purchased for the equivalent of a shilling. Many, too, are the Government officials, required by the new regime to don frock coats on state occasions, who, because of their puny salaries, patronise the khan.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 32
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148OLD CLOTHES FOR TURKEY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 32
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