... the prices displayed are in 1966 HK dollars and it'd be interesting to know what the conversion rate was at the time. I do recall that tailored clothing was amazingly inexpensive; for instance, I used to pay $4 US for hand-made dress shirts ... $5 US for French cuffs ... tailor-made suits were in the $30-50 US range .... and shoes were a special bargain. For years, I had my shoes made at Lee Kee Bootmaker, Kowloon, at phenomenally low prices. Even while living in the States for years thereafter, I'd merely send Lee Kee a magazine advertisement for a given pair of shoes and, about 3-4 weeks later, they'd be in my mailbox. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, those were the days ....