original purchase price of cc41 dress?

Hattysattic

Hattysattic

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Am just listing very sweet CC41 labelled summer dress, which has what looks to be the price of 31 /- (or is it 36 /- ( /- being shillings)

Shall add a pic. What say you? 31 or 36?

Either wouldn't make it a super cheap dress, but not over the top expensive. Just wondered out of interest if anyone knew the typical price span of british day dresses under rationing off the top of their heads, lol! I always want to know stuff like that, have already looked up average wages etc :D

Here's the label:



From this dress:



Thank you!

Ooh, and also instead of snaps at the side it has a kind of fabric vent (bit like a pocket). Is there a better way of describing that? TIA!
 
looks like 36 to me but i dont really know much about the original prices of British dresses. I know that side vent thingy you mean but I do not know the proper term for it. It is a beautiful dress. Sorry, looks like im not much help!
 
I don't know if this helps or not, but your dress looks about 1948 to me I looked up an Eaton's catalogue I have from 1948 and an average dress is $10.00, which is about $81.00 in today's money according to the retail price index I found online. The British pound is sitting at about 2.20 Canadian at the moment, so that would make its relative value now in GBP about 37 GBP.

Now, there was a major deflation of the British pound after the war, in about 1947 but by how much I don't know.

I have forgotten how many shillings there were to the pound, but does that help at all?
 
yeah thats 36 bob definately!!

well being this old, l remember Imperial monies and used to get a ten bob note for pocket money c1973 and l still equate and exchange back sometimes..

20 shillings (bob) to the pound......

a guinea was like this...if a dress was 30 guinea's that meant £30 old pounds and 30 shillings...

which meant £31 pounds and 10 shillings was the cost ....and guineas were used for high quality items like a ladies dress shop, posh shops etc...HTh
 
okay, so 36 shillings is worth about 45 pounds in today's money, which would be 99 Canadian dollars, so that's pretty close to the value of $10.00 Canadian in 1948 being $81.00 today.
 
If it was 31 shillings, its value today would be about 38 pounds. Similarly, $10.00 in 1948 is 81.00 and 38 X 2.25 (today's exchange rate) the result is Canadian $85.50, so that is about bang on!
 
I think it's about correct. In the link Heather gave me it lists the average prices during ww2, which are very useful. Average gents suit cost during the war was 55 shillings, so I think that would make this dress a little pricy but not ghastly. It is nice, honestly; I would have paid for it! But then I am a hopeless spendthrift...

Nice calculating Jonathan, it really is bang on!
 
hi... harriet..... thanks for doing the link.......i think i better go to evening classes... to work things out lol.....

it is a usefull and interesting site...... so i have bookmarked it.....

i like the bit where they talked about the 'loop holes' about the clothes rationing..... as i love loop holes with my coupon use and company refund policies etc.....( diff story all together there )

as i have some utility style shoes that are def... of that era but no utility marks.....
 
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