FROM TINY SHOP TO LARGE SALON.
A Princess Calls And Success Follows.
(Special.—By Air Mail.)
LONDON, June 5,
Seventeen years ago two sister* with little capital but an abundance of hope opened a one-room shop in Shepherd's Market, London, to sell hats, gowns, ornaments. Few people came to buy. The sisters' bank balance dwindled. One of them went to America to get a job. She worked as a designer. Her sister kept hopefully on in t}i& one-room shop. She persuaded her sister to come back and design for the business. Still few people came to buy. One morning two women looked in the tiny window. One was a princess, the other a duchess. They liked what they saw, made purchases, sent friends to the shop in Shepherd's Market. Adele Cywan, one of the sisters, told of their early struggles this week—a* she sat in a luxurious armchair in her new black-and-chromium-fronted shop in smart Curzon Street, Mayfair. Adele employs 200 people. They are working overtime to make gowns for peeresses, film stars and Mayfair beauties to wear at Ascot.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 17
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