1.   As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas Decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.

2.   Clothes with designer labels sell for ridiculous prices nowadays.

3.   Fancy designer labels tend to come with fancy price tags to match.

4.   Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again.

5.   Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels.

6.   They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway.

7.   They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.

8.   And clothes would happen with, or without, the blessing of a designer label, she said.

9.   And the designer labels are certainly a draw.

10.   Another shows poison gas canisters with designer labels like Hermes and Chanel.