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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women's clothing?  WHY???
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 09:59:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 09:59:33 1984
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My own experience with clothing stores is that the variation in
quality and price for women's clothing seems far greater than for
men's. (Though this is changing).  The stuff all starts out high,
but the experience that my wife and I have had is that women's
clothing seems to go on sale more frequently and at much deeper
discounts than mens, so women who don't care whether if they have
the latest colors and styles can pick up items at less than 1/3 of
the original cost quite regularly.  When was the last time any of
the men out there bought pants
at less than $5, or leather shoes at less than $10 (both items my
wife has bought in the last 6 months).  The very high quality stuff
is of course less well discounted, but it's not necessary to pay
high prices for cheap junk.

There are lots of stores in this area (Chicago) claiming to be
quality discounters of both men's and women's clothing.  (There are
whole shopping centers devoted to this).  Our experience has been
that the prices are frequently not significantly lower than
elsewhere in these establishments, so as usual caveat emptor.

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	Warren Montgomery
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