Editorial

EDITORIAL EMANATIONS

by Virginia

1. PRINTING DELAYS FOR TVia: You all received my note with No. 81 explaining the financial situation and that new issues would be printed as and when finances made it possible. Things should improve in the fall after everyone is home from vacations, but they may well get worse as inflation continues. I know how much a lot of you look forward to TVia and I'll keep it coming as frequently as I can; but Chevalier is, after all, a business by itself and will have to stand or fall on its own. I don't propose to subsidize it out of my own personal assets. I finally got the debt re- duced to the point that I could put this issue together, and by the time it appears I'll have the past debts paid and be part way up on the costs of this issue. After all, my income from Chevalier comes from the whole- sale sales, and with nothing to sell to them I'm in a bind, too-so I have personal motivations to keep them coming as fast as I can. But as I said in that note, you can help, too, by ordering any of the previous issues that you haven't read. This gives you something while waiting for the new issue and helps reduce my inventory and provide the means of pay- ing off the current costs. Please do.

2. THANKS TO READERS: My thanks are extended to several of our readers who made free gifts to Chevalier and one who extended a long term interest free loan. These went immediately to servicing the debt and I appreciate their help very much. You should too as it helped bring this issue to you quicker than it would have otherwise.

3. PRICE INCREASES: No sooner do I announce a few price increases and print up a new price list than I am hit by new increases. The makers of the bra inserts have increased their price to me again by 86 cents a pair which of necessity requires an increase in our price to you of $1 a pair, making the new price $5.50 per pair. Sorry, but that is the way it is. The inserts are vinyl plastic which comes from petroleum which you may have heard (??) is in short and expensive supply.

The Camp Company, which makes the bras themselves and which uses the inserts, will doubtless get a price raise too which they will pass