BEST-DRESSED WOMAN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 4

BEST-DRESSED WOMAN

£20,000 A Year Spent On Clothes The Paris dress designers have recently awarded the coveted social award of the world’s best dressed woman to Madame Antenor Patino, wife of the newly-appointed Bolivian Minister to London, Madame Patino is dark and petite and dresses a good deal in the warmer, stronger colours, particularly violet blue. She spends about £20,000 a year on dress.

The Duchess of Windsor was the last person to hold this title, and the Duchess of Kent is considered the third best dressed woman in the world. ' Madame Patino is a Bourbon. She was Princess Christina de Bourbon, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. Her husband, M. Antenor Patino, is the heir to one of the five largest fortunes in the world, drawn from huge tin deposits in Bolivia. Her father-in-law is Don Simon Patino, Bolivian Minister to France. He is the world’s greatest tin magnate. Many years ago, Don Simon accepted a strip of mountain land in Bolivia from a Portuguese miner, in lieu of a debt. This mountain land turned out to be full of tin, and was the beginning of the existence of the giant Patino Mines and Enterprises Corp., Inc.