FASHION’S CHANGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 January 1928, Page 3

FASHION’S CHANGES

TO STIMULATE TRADE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.’ LONDON, January 9. Sir Edwin Stockton, speaking at the Textile Institute at Bradford upon “Fashions and»Trado,” pointed but that if short skirts harmed the textile industry, the turning up of trouser bottoms had given the hosiery manufacturers a chance by creating a demand for fancy socks. “You may say, ‘How vain to want your socks exposed and to buy fashionmade hosiery,” he said. “The hosiery trade is busy as a result, at any rate, just as the vogue of the short -skirt resulted in a big demand for silk stockings. Dress designers are generally men who decree changes in fashion in the hope of stimulating trade.” “The artificial silk industry,” said Sir Edwin Stockton, “had killed the rag and shoddy department of the wool Ijrade, and if someone should evolve an artificial silk tie which would stand twisting another large new trade would be developed.” SWEETS AND CIGARETTES. LONDON, January 11. Confectioners are the latest victims of women’s craze for slimness, says the annual report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Imports of refined sugar and candy dropped six million hundredweight within the year, representing a fall of 35 per cent. Experts say that whereas a man used to give a box of chocolates to a girl, he now gives a box of cigarettes. Doctors, however, deprecate cutting sugar from the 'dietary of women, and state it would be wiser to secure slimness by cutting out pastry and potatoes.