HUGE FEES.
A DRESSMAKER'S ENGAGEMENT. (BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, January 14. A salary of £15,000 a year, plus commission, and with holidays four times a year, including six weeks in summer, 15 guineas expenses daily for fashionable race meetings, expenses for four visits to Paris yearly for a week each, and six gowns a year, averaging £25 each, were among the terms on which PaquinSi Limited, the West End dressmakers, engaged the dress designer, Mrs Fox-Pitt, in 1923, but the engagement was cancelled at a moment's notice in 1925, the directors alleging that she secretly charged five apprentices a premium of £2O, in addition to £3O each which the firm charged. Mr 3 Pitt asserts that the directors assented to charging the extra £2O for distribution among supervisors to induce them to teach the apprentices thoroughly.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18901, 17 January 1927, Page 1
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