The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-05-16
Crowded Streets

The main shopping street for wo-
men is Florida. 1t is about the
width of the sidewalk on Seventh
Avenue in New York City or Michi-
gan Boulevard in Chicago. Automo-
biles have to pass down that also
OF course after five in the evening
when the crowds have grown more
dense, you are just pushed along
in a flood of people, all in the cen
ter Of the street.
They begin their shopping around
4:3O in the afternoon. Stores gen.
orally open around 2:3O and re-
main until 500 at night. Every
body goes to a matinee at $3.50 or
600 to dinner at 900 or $50, to
the theater for the first show at
1000, and the theaters are closed
after 1870. Then they have a cup
of coffee or a drink of liquor and
go to dance. (They love to dance)
Thence to bed at three or four.
ArgentineS Wear FlOppy Shoes
The weather is getting cooler as
the fall sets in. The shops are
showing fall hats and shoes. In
cidently the hats are lovely here
and the best tailors in the world
are in Buenos Aires. Materials are
of the finest and are inexpensive.
Shoes, however, are not so chic.
They tan their own leather, and the
processes are not satisfactory. For
this reason everyone suffers from
bad feet, and wears funny, loose
shoes.
A woman may be wearing the
lovliest of hand tailored suits, with
exquisite accessories in the very
best of taste, then top it all off with
the most untidy, floppy shoes that
make no attempt to fit her feet.
There are, of course, exceptions to
tbs rule. Shoes made to order, and
executed by hand are fine and well
made, but the custom made ones
are mo bueno."
The hose are somewhat inferior,
too. The clock up the side is indi-
cative of the cheaper stockings, and
naturally one sees many more or
them. Hose of trim, decent appear
ance run around four or five pesos,
the equivalent of about $1.5O.
Surely diamonds must be cheap
here. Every principal in the revue
in which l am appearing has gobs
of real diamonds. Where one or
dinarily sees good rhinestone
bracelet or brooch, they have real
diamond bracelets, and earrings,
and long bar pms instead OF clips,
mounted in pltinum. For one hun
dred dollars the other day l saw the
most gorgeous diamond and plati-
mum wrist watch. They have many,
many precious stones, and seem to
buy more jewels than furs-yet
furs seem so plentiful that they
must be inexpensive also. l should
be afraid of the tanning the furs
receive in the Argentine, however.
High Import Duties
Food is exorbitant in price. The
same is true Of ready to wear
clothes. Duty is high on imports,
so they all but "hi-jack" the GUS
toner. Buenos Ares, you see, Is
very young as a city Of importance.
1t is not sea port town, but Is To-
Gated IT'S miles up a very muddy
red river( called Plata" cine
name means Silver" but the river
is anything else butt. This hand
made port, with the difficulty In
reaching it, causes the imports to
soar, and the cost Of foreign pro-
ducts reflects the duties. In Rio
the cost of living is much cheaper.
Things manufactured in the Ar
gentines are less expensive, but
they are also quite scarce. Cosme-
tics are very dear. For instance
lipstick for which l pay eighty
nine cents at home costs approx
mately $500 here. Oddly enough
French imports are more expen-