FROCKS CHOSEN
QUEEN AND MRS. ROOSEVELT
EMPIRE WOOLLENS
(Received April 10, 9 a.m.)
NEW YORK, April 8,
Mrs. Roosevelt reveals that she and Queen Elizabeth will dress for their historic meeting in Washington in June in sheerest blue wool provided by the wool growers of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. The Queen will wear a pastel blue frock of American wool as thin as chiffon. Mrs. Roosevelt, has chosen an azure blue dress of Empire wool.
Mrs. Roosevelt is helping industry by including numbers of modern woollen fabrics in her widely-publicised wardrobe. The Australian industry will benefit particularly, though indirectly, as the bulk of high-priced fashionable importations from Scotland are made up of Australian merin'-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 83, 10 April 1939, Page 7
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