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"While London is certainly the shopping "paradise of men" just as Paris has long been acknowledged the ´´paradise of women,´´ still both cities offer tempting attractions to voyagers of either sex, and the familiar aphorism, "London for men´s clothes and Paris for women´s,´´ may occasionally be reversed. The two cities are not so far apart, despite race prejudices, but that their standards sometimes overlap.
To-day a traveling woman may not deliberately go to London for French novelties, yet beautiful French blouses and model gowns may sometimes be picked up there out of season for a song. The choice London shops are, most of them, very small, and since
they cannot carry a large stock, things are disposed of for what they will bring when it comes time to lay in a new supply. The women of Great Britain themselves will tell you that the time to look for bargains is late June. That is when they contrive, if they buy cautiously - and what English person does not? - to be in London. June marks the closing of the social season," [...]

This still very interesting shopping guide is a reprint of the originally published book from 1912.

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