PARIS MODES.
ALLEGED COPYISTS. LONDON, Aug. 11. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states: “The latest development in the dressmakers’ strugglo to prevent tho clandestine copying of the new season’s models in tint police raided tho homes of two American women who were suspected of a plot to steal copies of tho winter modes. Tho party included detectives and experts from tho leading dressmakers. One woman admitted that she paid anything from 8d to 17s for a sketch, but maintained that the operations wero strictly honourable. “The women claim that they are in tho habit of buying generously at th Paris autumn exhibitions. Parisiai dressmakers demand that the alleges., copyists bo expelled from Fi.uice.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 219, 12 August 1930, Page 11
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113PARIS MODES. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 219, 12 August 1930, Page 11
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