British Made Fabrics

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 19

British Made Fabrics

Paced cloth, in a variety of different weaves, was seen on nearly every stand at the Fashions Exhibition .recently, states the "Daily Mail." British: manufacturers concentrated on plain cloth of hard-wearing quality. One exhibitor of coats and suits had used 5000 yards of this materialfrom Bradford looms, paying 12 per cent, less for it than last year's price. On account of this reduction in British prices, foreign materials were' excluded from the stand for the first time. Several large orders for • British tweeds were received from Holland, other overseas buyers coming from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and many other countries. Fifty thousand yards of British tweed had been used by one exhibitor alone: ' Ten ounces the yard for both coat and frock was the favourite weight,' the tweed being, dyed to the natural- colours seen on the Scottish moors. A green tweed in golf-ball weaves-was used' for golf suit, golf bag, and handbag. Even' the very ' lightest of " French < tweeds, weighing 3dz or 4oz'the yard, were this year British made. Miles of Nottingham lace were used by one.house for evening'gowns. ' ■ j