WOMEN’S SKIRTS
AS WOOL PRICES ’RISE TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS PERTURBED London, February 24. The Yorkshire West Riding textile manufacturers are seriously perturbed at the further reduction in the size of women’s skirts. Mr. Elmsley,’president of the Textile Institute, in a statement,' said that wool at present was dear and prices of fabrics had gone :up to meet this. “Dress designers,” he said, “use less material. Recently I increased the price of cloth, whereupon the dress designers said that it would be necessary to use • a quarter of a yard less in a dress in order to avert an increase in the retail cost.” Other manufacturers point out that every inch by which skirts are shortened means a corresponding curtailment of employment „in the mills. Higher prices cause higher skirts.— Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 130, 26 February 1925, Page 9
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