SHORT SKIRTS
AND HILK STOCKINGS. AMERICA’S FORESIGHT, , LONDON, Juno IS. Mr T. G. Boinio, a warehouseman from Brisbane, says that America’s trade is booming compared to that of England, which is losing prestige as the centre of women’s fashions. Nottingham and Manchester, when short skirts bora mo fashionable, were still producing cotton hosiery. The Americans foresaw that short skirls meajjt silk stockings, and prepared to satisfy the demand. Now they control the world hosiery market. They export to France more stock, ings than France makes. The Americans still look to Bond street for tlio smartest men’s wear. .Mr lidrne considers that tlio gold standard, by which Australia will loso, will handicap Britain’s exports and help her imports.
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Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 2
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117SHORT SKIRTS Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 2
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