The one exception is shoes as the shoes here of all kinds made on unsatisfactory last and prices are high. Dresses, lingerie and table linen can be made up well at very reasonable rates by local dressmakers. Perfumes are cdheaper than in the States and are also handled by the Post Exchange as well as hair-nets. Boys wear khaki shorts, khaki shirting and leather sandals and sneakers. Sandals and sneakers are hard to get and expensive and should be brought.
Caps are also hard to get.
Girls' clothes can be had here. The Brigade facilites are excellent. The Field Hospital is completing a building for women and children. There is an excellent specialist in eye, ear, and nose and throat at General Hospital. Malaria is rapidly decreasing but use of mosquito nets at night advasable.