APPAREL FOR WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20679, 26 September 1930, Page 14

APPAREL FOR WOMEN.

Sir, —It is to be hoped that tho women o[ New Zealand will read and take to heart the words of Miss Ellen Melville's address. If every woman in New Zealand was able to spend a month in Paris she would soon learn to be more British and find out that France is not all it is cracked up to be. I have hern in Paris three times, nnd I found that if one wants to buy the real smart French gowns 0110 must * pay from 50gns. t<> 200gns., so when women-here ask for and buy Paris garments for lOgns. to 25gns. otio knows it is a. poor imitation of the real French model they are getting. Mis* Melville says, "We are making those foreign countries rich at our expense." and 1 might add that these foreign countries havo no lovo for England, and, incidentally, ourselves. Shoes and ladies' suits, etc., purchased from United States of America and sold in New Zealand as the latest from New York are not the type worn in the States. The cxpoYi. manufacturers make especially for exj'Oit. trade and they know what each country wants and make accordingly. I"am not an, expert on the subject of wliat we import from other countries, but 1 do know that if a woman buys a pair of socalled American shoes and a so-called American suit in Now Zealand, then sails to either Vancouver or' San Francisco, she can be singled out of any crowd on th<* street as an Australian. New Zealand is not on tho map to most people over there. Australia and Now Zealand am one and the same country. Yet foolish women stili go on buying these imported goods and think they arc getting tho goods and stylo worn in these foreign places. It amazes me why women want to act nnd look like a l'ank. For myself, 1 air: proud to wear clothes made in New Zealand and to look as _ much like a New Zealandcr as possible in an> city of the world. N.Z. Goons.