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10 - Friday, August 23, 1985 - North Shore News

The best buys in

ONE “ADVANTAGE (2) of travelling with an

18-year-old daughter
shop. .

And shop.

If we. missed any shoe
shops or clothing stores.
especially any with blaring,
loud music, I apologise to
the owners. We did our best.

I understand why. many
shops don't provide chairs
for weary husbands or
parents - they’re just too
gteat a temptation for the
staff-to sit down on the job.

But to the few that did, my

thanks. -;

. Naturally, shoe shops have
seats, but. at the same time
they have sales in July and
August: and you feel guilty
about monopolizing a seat
while some customer strug-
gles. to. try, on. shoes standing

rand what di “my. ‘shopp-
ing . expert. decide . about
British: shopping? .In.a word

At the top of, the: list came
shoes. She’d never seen such
a variety in her life and at

. such low prices.

‘For-example, there: was a

‘run here‘on -pastel shoes last
, spring | for. graduation. Our

shops had a. very: limited

-selection and as the common _- :
sizes. were. quickly” snapped-. -
up;.many ‘girls had‘to settle. -
~ for plain white. °

‘England ‘(and:- “Scotland

a and Wales)’ had every shade .
and tint. in’ every vsize~ and
. ‘What heel height :

«would ‘you ‘like? ‘Everything
_. from six-inch spikes to wafer

thin flats... a

Sli riodes t heel, ‘for $7.

he‘high’ quality ‘shops,

the upcoming inter-collegiate
competition. .

Open tryouts begin

- August 24, 6 p.m. and will

continue throughout the
weekend and the following
week at the campus soccer
fietd.

. The collegiate exhibition
season for the Blues begins
on Saturday, Sept. 7 against
Shoreline Community Col-

‘lege from. Seattle and Sun-

day, Sept. 8 against Ed-
monds C.C. from Seattle.
Both games are scheduled

The: average. price for’ an
all-leather: shoe: was.$28." If.

shoes: that- might-cost $150 in. °
Can: da could be b ight for’ -

is the opportunity to

less than half of that.
Matching handbags were a
bargain as well. ! bought
myself a pair of pale yellow
leather pumps and a mat-
ching leather handbag for
the total of $68. My daugh-
ter matched her black shoes

;
travel-
wise

by Barbara
McCreadie

with a eaik bag for $18.

_, We don’t have any infants
or small kids. in our family -
-and precious little chance of
acquiring. any in the im-
‘mediate ‘future - but we
-couldn't. resist browsing

“through the kiddy shops.

~The difference between
Canada anid Britain is that if

-“you buy ‘inexpensive ' kids
- clothes, here. you — generally
“sacrifice style and quality to
_ save money. Not so in Bri-
Stain

o "Beautifully | made, high

“style children’s clothes are

moderately priced. And sen-
sibly made - no > bows pinned

thing *: “preventing: “quality

~B.C. wines from respectibili-
‘they: deserve i is. relictance _

ie same eo ohing happen-
California,” ‘he said.

: “for 1 p.m. “kick off.
Blues Soccer team has begin.
pre-season preparations : for:

New players are welcome

to try out for the team’ and
" are « requested

to contact
coach Joe lIacobellis at the
College (986-1911 Joc. 320)
or 937-3379 as soon as
possible.

The Capilano College
Women’s Soccer team will
be coached by Mr. Frank
Pupp from the Lynn Valley
Soccer Organization,

Women interested in play-
ing are requested to contact
either Joe lacobellis or
Frank Pupp (986-2589) be-
fore Sept. 4. Practices will
begin during the first week
of classes.

on with safety pins, no
trimmings at crucial points
where the kid needs less than
two minutes to have the
thing chewed off.

1 vowed that if 1 shouid
ever become a grandmother
I'll somehow get to England
to do some shopping - not in
the interest of economy. If
you're over there, and in the
market, start with the big
‘“Mothercare’’ chain.
Marvellous.

If you’re a teen or young
adult travelling to England,
I'd suggest that you don’t
buy a.travel wardrobe. In-
stead, arrive with the clothes
on your back, plenty of
‘money and an empty suit-
case..Only a lack of money
prevented my kid from buy-
ing: truckload. She figuied
the prices to be about one
third less than ‘here.

One small ‘problem -
English stores ‘don’t. ‘‘rush
the seasons”-"as: we do in
Canada. We were primarily
interested in buying fall
clothes but were told not to
expect them in the shops un-
til mid-September. My big-
gest disappointment was that
Marks and Spencer had a
very limited supp¥ of, wool
sweaters, I'd planned on
buying several and came
home with none.

Our final stop on the trip ,

was the island of. Jersey.
More about that later but
fet’s look at the. shops for a
minute. Suzy wasn't as ex-
cited about clothing ‘shops
there but couldn’t believe the:
bargain prices on perfumes,
watches, cigarette lighters,
liquor and cigarettes.

We botight. a bottle of
Glenfiddich Scotch. for Brian
- one. litre - $16. Cigarettes
are about $11.50 a carton.
Both these iicms are even
cheaper on the Sealink ferry
boats but you run the risk of
finding them out of stock of
the brand you want. (Ciga-

“the'market; but it wasn’t un-
me ‘California: wines won rec-
“ ognition ‘in. France in 1976

that people took notice.’

He™ Says it is up ‘0 it
opinion make -
restaurateurs, tasters ‘and
wine and food societies - 10
get behind B.C. wines. ‘The
quality is there,’’ he said,
“‘now it’s up to the people to
discover it.”’ ;

This~ year 92 wines were

- entered in. the “PNE Wine
Compete B.C,

wines
were a central feature of all
events and. that tradition
_continues during the Annual
’ Fair.” The: award-winning

‘wines will be on sale at the

PNE Wir: Garden until the
end of the 17-day Fair. ~

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carton). : :
Last time I bought myself
a bottle of my favorite per-
fume I paid over $50. On
Jersey, a larger size was $28.
Just a few more observa-
tions on shopping Britain:
*Shoe sizes aren’t the
same - if you wear a 7-74%
here, you'll take a 5-5%
there. Some are expressed in
European sizes which are
different again. The shops
have conversion tables.
*Fitting rooms. can be
something else. My daugher

Twines Seresera rarer

wasn’t impressed with the
communal ones in some
shops, even though they
weren't unisex! Somehow,
sharing a room with twenty
others in various stages of
undress put her off.Outside
London, Marks and Spencer
don’t provide fitting rooms
at all! This was a nuisance
because although they have a
very lenient policy with ex-
changes and returns, it

doesn’t do the traveller any-

good. .
*One thing that rather
puts me off is the Practice of

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having racks and racks of
shoes in the store’ that
anyone can try on -by
themselves. This means that
a lot of sweaty bare feet get
shoved into the shoes, some-
thing that stores in Canada
discourage.

*I love the new one-pound
coins. These got off to a
slow start.in Britain but are
popular now and a whole lot
better than the tattered Sittle
rags of pound notes,

The only thing that kept
us true to our $300 Customs
declaration was our poverty.

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