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Home buys call for ingenuity
(This is the second of a 12-part
series on the recent best seller,
“BBB Consumer’s Buying Guide,
How to Get Your Money’s
Worth.”
The purchase of either furni
ture or carpeting involves consid
erably more use of the imagina
tion and examination of the fam
ily budget than do most other
purchases that the housewife is
normally called upon to make.
If she chooses precipitously,
she’s generally stuck with what
she bought for some time. If she
has purchased unwisely, she can
not expect either the carpeting
or the furniture to last as long
as she herself had anticipated.
Furniture—Studies show adults
generally buy furniture at least
twice in their lives. The first
purchase is generally made
around the time of marriage; the
second when the children have
reached their teens. The first set
of furniture may not be expen
sive but it is generally intended
to last 10 or 12 years.
The furniture you buy will be
from three basic categories—case
goods, occasional furniture and
upholstered pieces. Case goods
generally include dining room and
bedroom furniture. Occasional
furniture includes nonupholstered
pieces—desks, chests, end tables
and other furniture for other
rooms of your home that don’t
require upholstered parts. Up
holstered pieces include chairs,
couches and other pieces built
with padding, perhaps with
springs, and covered at least par
tially with fabric.
Complaints to the Better Busi
ness Bureau involving the pur
chase of furniture involve:
—Delay in delivery or damage
upon receipt. Examine your fur
niture when it arrives.
—Beware of firms which ad
vertise as “warehouses.” Fre
quently they are retail outlets
trying to attract the unwary.
—Furniture is seldom guaran
teed by the manufacturer. If a
salesman makes such a represen
tation, get it in writing. Any
“lifetime” guarantee on furniture
should be approached with sus
picion.
Carpeting—As is the case in
all areas of purchase, knowing
the reputation of the carpet firm
with which you intend doing bus
iness is important. Since many
people will want to see the car
peting they purchase in the set
ting of their home, many firms
offer “in-home” shopping serv
ice. Complaints received by the
BBB allege substitution of mer
chandise and selling inferior car
peting at considerably more than
prevailing retail prices. Prospec
tive customers should check the
reputation of firms to establish
their record of reliability.
In the choice of a carpet, the
fabric is not the factor which, in
itself, determines wear. Construc
tion is most important. Depth and
density of the pile, the weight of
WOMEN
NOW
the yarn, balance in the weave,
strength of the backing and other
structural features are uniquely
important. The pile means the
outer surface of the carpet form
ed by the interlocking of fibers
which bears the brunt of traffic.
The Better Business Bureau
cautions you against these pit-
falls:
—Be careful of “three rooms
of carpeting sales.” Too often the
square footage advertised cannot
be expected to cover three aver
age-sized rooms.
—Be leary of becoming involv
ed in a referral sales plan where
you are offered the carpeting
with the inducement that it will
pay for itself merely by referring
the names of friends as possible
purchasers at X number of dol
lars per referral.
—If you are offered commer
cial or industrial carpeting and
told of its wonderful stand-up-to-
the-crowd appeal, be cautious.
There are no standards establish
ed for “commercial” carpeting
and although you could be get
ting a bargain, the likelihood is
not overwhelming.
Africa bans ‘shocking’ mini
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Midi- and maxi- length skirts
may be the fashion rage in soph
isticated capitals, but the mini
continues to stir controversy in
sub-Sahara Africa.
Women in black Africa who fa
vor ultra short skirts have had
a hard time for several years
asserting the right to keep in
style.
Mini skirts and dresses might
be gradually passing from the
fashion scene, but there are few
signs that male dominated coun
tries are easing from their vigi
lance.
Female police clerks in Portu
guese Mozambique have been or
dered not to wear skirts shorter
than theree inches below the knee.
Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda
have cracked down on miniskirts
as offending their national dig
nity.
Upper Volta’s decree that skirts
should be no higher than the
knee has created unfortunate cir
cumstances. An Upper Voltan
newspaper reports that overzeal-
ous young men used the order as
an excuse for “outrageous impor
tuning” and “rummaging about”
inside suspect skirts.
A few loopholes are left the
girls of Upper Volta. Short skirts
are acceptable for tennis and
other sports. They can also be
worn for traditional tribal danc
ing, but the Minister of Security
—which is responsible for the
whole business — cautioned that
miniskirts are taboo for modern
dancing.
In South Africa, lay preacher
and anti-miniskirt campaigner
Gert Yssei says the Springbok
rugby team which toured Britain
last year lost because of the “de
cadent influence” of miniskirted
British women. The South Afri
cans recently defeated the visit
ing New Zealand All Black rugby
squad, but Yssei is not changing
his tune. He warned South Afri
cans to “stop crowing about
Springbok’s victory over the All
Blacks” because the demise of
South African rugby is immi
nent. The players are obsessed
with sex, he said.
H. Kamazu Banda, the bach
elor president of Malawi, says he
is shocked with high hemlines.
His central African country un
officially banned the mini about
two years ago. A notice warning
female visitors to keep the length
of their skirts within the locally
prescribed limits of decency was
posted at Chilenka Airport. At
least one woman was asked to
leave this former British terri
tory, apparently for insisting on
her right to wear minis.
“I feel strongly about mini
skirts or any short dress at all,”
Banda told a recent gathering of
his Malawi Congress Party. The
party faithful promptly called for
legislation to outlaw the mini.
The audience chuckled, but later
applauded after Banda explained
his position.
“Most women do not realize
this. When they have a skirt com
ing here—when they bend down
—they don’t realize it. I am deep
ly offended to see a woman . . .
I mean just that when I say I
am offended. When a woman
bends . . oh terrible, terrible.”
Banda insisted he would rather
have the entire civil service break
down than have Malawi tolerate
miniskirts.
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