Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — Clothing Prices in Belgium. [ARTICLE]

Clothing Prices in Belgium.

It is becoming more and more difficult to obtain clothing in Belgium, according to the Belgian Bulletin, which says that persons who have been thrown out of, work may secure on easy terms, once a ‘ year, from the charity clothing club a dress or an overcoat. A Belgian interned in Holland, obtained permission to wean civilian dress. His wife, who had remained at Vervlers, joined him, and he wrote recently: * “My wife has come with my personal 'effects. However, before she left, a number of persons came to her and offered her for my Sunday suit and overcoat 500 francs ($100); for a pair of velvet trousers, which cost 7 francs ($1.40) before the war, 40 francs ($8); for my shoes 250 francs (SSO), etc.