FASHIONS AND TRADE
1 EFFECT OF SHORT SKIRTS AND TURNING UP OF TROUSERS’ BOTTOMS BY Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyiugh.. (Rec. Januarv 10, 7.30 p.m.) London, January 9. Sir Edwin Stockton, speaking at the Textile Institute, Bradford, upon fashions and trade, pointed out that if short skirts harmed the textile industry, the turning-up of trouser bottoms had given hosiery manufacturers a chance by creating a demand for fancy socks'. “You may say, ‘How vain to want socks exposed to buy fashion-made hosiery.' The hosiery trade is busy as a result, at any rate, just as the'vogue of the short skirt resulted in a big demand for silk stockings. Dress designers are generally men, who decree changes in fashion in the- hope of stimulating trade.” The artificial silk industry, said Sir Edwin Stockton, had killed the rag and shoddy department of the wool trade, and if someone should evolve an artificial silk tie, Which would stand twisting, another large new trade would be developed. -
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 87, 11 January 1928, Page 10
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