1976 Christmas Lore Maria Wiener 261-5010 a Suit Yourself — IN ARISTOCRATIC VELVET Deftly tailored and intelligently cut, these suits are the first of a line we intend to and control A limited number of suits may for Christmas delivery. They grey, green, brown, and other The price is $400 for jacket, to our have under and be ordered by December come in black, navy, colours as available. vest, and pants. made here specifications our direct supervision. 10, THE you hallmark, Its Perky ANATOMY will see, is SUIT OF AN careful attention detail. to lapel..econe 4 The velvet vest has a pure silk back. Ties (as man's vest) nip Sy Fore shoulder gives a narrow profile, satin ona the waist.... Dyed-to-match buttons from Switzerland... ae: Res, pas fis ra Pinas eos ee THE surgeon's cuff: the buttonholes are real. The sleeve re- may opened be at the bottom and flipped back-- oH the better to display the splendid cuff LMW of blouse! a You Will Find Pretty Dresses May we suggest pale blue printed pure silk crepe georgette? With lettuce-edged neckline, sleeves and hem, bias-cut? Or can we tempt with something in cozy mati thin wool jersey, with slightly belled sleeves and flared skirt? mannii V-necked, you Or would you reconsider the pleasure of a black dress? In lacy mohair? Tempted? sancti ¢ cowl-necked silk cord Y ¢) a Ay BCh v7) y NY = ee ~ A> - ce aN Hie a .—— ‘4 Christmas with Mozart! (Loden coats from Salzburg) Lacy mohair V-necked cardigans. Handsome pullovers in wool, plain Pais MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE MALIGinfluence of commerce on Christmas. Much has been written about the influence of nant less Christmas on In the quality of commercial life. one pithy phrase: it drives us crazy. This is a sad thing. We, like others, long for the Christmas spirit to touch, and dissolve, the coin-mail which armours our hearts. We wish for an annual measure of that soul's generosity which even brief withdrawal from the ubiquitous struggle for self-aggrandizement can give. A clock's tick of inner peace. Perhaps it would happen if we closed on the ge and took off for a snowbound hamlet in Oberdstereich. But the suggestion provokes derisive laughter; after all, It is beyond the power of any we are in business. mere corporate entity to change the fact that the buying activity of millions peaks in the first days of winter. Those unsympathetic to business forget that for us, Christmas is inescapable. Derangement like beyond laughing us seeps gas. throughout through Reason has our back Few decisions been November. are based on the They are spawned methodical ordering by discussions like “That's impersonal. "We sell on rather Mondays?" "T can't cleaner. We'il shop” ask saleslady all the the new "We "We to time; of premisses. this: letter.” So who'll a letter girl We to can't put her is start Monday." afford her the work- don't need anybody there.” do, because we'll take Tillie out and use That was the sell on Mondays.” let the new “You said we can't to.do that selling? Days by much in "Why not arrangement.” me talk the "But she’s full-time. the new year.” "We can, because we'll until her dismissed rooms pretty of manic girl sell? afford it! Do you want I can’t talk all the time.” elation, days tion, days of cataclysmic doom, scopic response to the vagaries of bleak exhaus- revolve in kaleidoof the market and our own a time, out--an sipping strained biorhythms. Yet I know there is not too far off, when the mood will level evening when we will all sit in dim light, something cool or warm, gazing past the point. What still-wrapped parcels, we have out done to will the furthest then seem visible all right-- some good things, some bad, but nothing extreme-neither heaven nor hell to the well-balanced. Reflecting whatever on our happens, silly not to season get we that will way resolve, next year. We It is not worth it. It is not necessary. modicum that through And calm. and will be aloof, next begin to able be will we of self-deception Merry Christmas. year in sanity and good cheer.