PARIS FROCK MODELS

Evening Star, Issue 16398, 14 April 1917, Page 6

PARIS FROCK MODELS

Aged 29 and passed 81, 11. Reece, an expert, designer of women’s costumes, asked for further exemption at a sitting of tho London Appeal Tribunal recently Mr R. G‘. Hawkin explained that it wa/ Reece’s duty to go to Paris and tell th< leading firms in London what the womei should wear. Mr Forbes Lancaster, K.C. i They must wear what they can now. You cannot pm , that forward as of national importance. Mr Hawkin: I am not putting it so high as that. Every year Mr Reece gees to Paris in March. Mr Lancaster: I cannot listen to tho importance of going to Paris in March this year when Europe is in the midst of tliis terrble convulson. Mr Hawkin asked for an extension to enable Mr Reece to take a man with him to Paris eo that the designs for the year might bo made. Mr Lancaster: Wo feel very strongly that tliis business is not of the slightest importance. It is desirable that there should bo no change in women’s dress at all for two or three years. Designers are really not wanted.

, Exemption until February 15 waa granted.