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Berlin Stores Sport Yule Gifts, Too; Second-Hands, Made-Overs Must Do;S By Na Beane Walker • .Stars and Stripes. Staff WH~ :BERLIN’, Deb. 7.—As in. most other war-torn European.' cities this year, Christmas .In Berlin will be a eostlv.affair for the few who can. afford'it. 'There! is still nothing worthwhile to .buy. .A Berlin wocfiah can buy a: hat, provided she supplies the..material, for $45 to $65. A dress .wili cost her $210 to $240 on the same basis. TJlwan, the only. Berlin department store operating as such, .offers a single rack; of cresses, nearly all unfashionably contrived- of-a-poor grade of black crepe. But their price tags-^-400-marks for a' jet-trimmed one, 260 for another oi stiff gold material—domot. indicate the purchase price. They are (only models from which a customer may select a style to be copied in tier own material, Most -of the hats axe black, tod, and some are trlmmifd with mourning veil. , -• . • •Ulwan, which is-located near -the dividing'line between'the Britishand Russian zones, opened for' business in . October. It employs 40 persons, about 15 or 20 of them sales clerks,. and serves 400 to 500 customers in ah average day, including a number of Russian, 'French, British and U.S. soldiers. - Its sales range from 5,000to 20,000 marks a day, according to, the sales manager, who explained that, both he and -the shop’s Jewish. and were in concentration camps during the war. ,;se ■ wood carving, silver candlesticks .and, other. items from private libraries and collections are sold on a .commission basis, part for the store and part for the owner. Soldier shoppers pay from100 to 300 marks for the Chinese pieces, up to 2,000 marks, for anillustrated edition of “Tristan and Isolde”- and 1,300 marks for a double candelabra. .!The busiest-and largest section of Ulwan is devoted to cosmetics. '(German women -[flock to buy cold creams, orange nail polish, and -(lotions,-' haphazardly 'bottled, and labeled, for froz the cosmetics, a cleric apologetica;Store Serves 400-500 In One Dayowner were half: Books, ChinofFraus FlockFor Cheap Cosmeticsi three to six. marks: Most re ■German-made.’: The perfume ly explained: “We' have no Lucien Lelong or Bourjois;” .Women’s handbags are straw' (6a marks), linen.'(150 marks) or cloth sparsely trimmed with leather (150 marks). Belts and lapel decorations are obviously devised irom scraps and sell for 25 to 50 marks.;| Sweaters knitted of wood synthetic cost 60G marks, and a satin con [for ter,, displayed as a-, backdrop for .costume dolls, .isarks. Left-over swastikas-have been made.into coffee-priced, at’$000' ifpot holders, tagsed 92 marks.
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Paris Stars and Stripes
Paris, Ile De France, FR
Sat, Dec 08, 1945
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