The abbreviation of women’s skirts has had an effect on the cardboard box-111 akiiur trade. Tt was mentioned at the Conciliation Council proceedings in Christchurch that lairge city drapers, although dyiing as much business as ever, now required 'ess than 25 per cent, of the boxes tliov used when skirts ware longer and a lady’s costume requined a much larger box to hold it.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 5
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