Maria

November,

Wiener

261-5010

Lore

1976

NEWS
2033

W.

41

SERV US,
SALZBU
Out of the blustering,
gusty
damps of Austria come loden
coats.
Their dense, pressed
wool repels rain, retains warmth.
Made for braving the storm!

This

coachman's

real

leather

loden

green,

by

Salona

cape.

In

Bae

navy

coat,

of

buttons
blue

$225.

immaculately

Salzburg,

and

and

has

a detachable

traditional

Also from Salzburg are these classically styled
single
and double breasted,
in green,
navy,
and

$168

- $196

loden coats,
French blue.

We have also been opening
boxes of pretty Italian
sweaters,
and catching
whiffs of sensuous Mediterranean air.
This lacy
black pullover of mohair

(making it both light and
cozy) is $70.
V-necked

cardigans,

in

and

colours

earth,

also

of

are

mohair,

ripe

$78.

grain

Thin

in

NY

stripes

red-brown-

green.
Goes
with loden.

Ciaou, Tyrol.

This

scoop-neck

fine-knit

=>

AUT
re

\e

slim-

fit plain wool
pullover may be

worn over a2
shirt or by
In
itself.
bordeaux,
navy,
and
brown,

Silver-grey.

Silky,

with

a

fashionable
cowl-neck,
for

evening.

In

coffee.

$50.

Silver-grey,
cream,
and

In mohair,
the colour
of wheat,
this features
a generous
turtle-neck,

$70.

Also

from

Italy

is

a

simple, pleasantlypatterned, wool jersey
dress.
Hints of gold.
$145.

And,

not

forgetting

here

soft
in

silky

pale

cotton

blue

our

is

an

own

workshop,

a woven

pattern,

LMW

sheced
with

or

white.

$65.

WHETHER

OR

NOT

TO

IMPOSE

duties,

and

where

the

attempt

to

decide

here.-

is

a complex

we

wish

matter

there

were

axe

we

will

easier

way

which

an

CUSTOMS

should

But

fall,

not

sometimes
of

doing business with our suppliers
abroad.
In darker moments,
the directives from Ottawa seem like the web of

a large and crazy bureaucratic
spider
far,
far removed from the hurly burly

ordinary
Item:

of

required

per inch
fill out

to

Item:

business life.
there was the time
count

the

there

was

of imported
the customs

number

of

we

were

threads

cloth in order
invoices.
the

recent

to

deci-

sion that our Fogal pantyhose is not
hosiery but knitwear and thus qualifies
for customs duties of 274 % instead

of

173%.

Item:
there is the ruling,
of
about a year's standing,
that permits
are needed for the importation of
knitted cloth.
Whether one imports
3

or

300

yards,

the

cost

of

the

permit

is the same.
This has, of course,
the
effect that we import more fabric than
we can foresee using immediately in
order to forestall requesting permits.
We stockpile more than before--maybe
import more than before too.
And this
is probably just the effect the bureaucratic spider does not intend!
These rules and others like them
naturally give birth to oceans of paper,
waves of ink, mammoth numbers of manhours both on the part of
and on that of government

businessmen
employees.

One hardly dares to contemplate the
thousands,
nay millions,
of taxpayers'
dollars that the enterprise absorbs.
The tangle may have a point.
But does
it have enough point to justify the
drain

on

our

resources?

We

country.
But not, whatever
limitlessly so.
may think,

are

the

a

wealthy

spider