GIRL’S £10,000 A YEAR

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 8

GIRL’S £IO,OOO A YEAR

DESIGNER OF DRESSES. RAPED RISE IN NEW YORK. One of the most envied girls in New York has just arrived in London. She Is Miss Caroline Nunder, the famous New York dress-designer, who dresses all the prettiest and wealthiest women of Long Island and Newport—■ the Mayfair of New York. ' The envy arises out of the fact that every year Miss Nunder wears 500 gowns of her own design—and none more than once. She acts, indeed, as her own mannequin, wearing the models at theatres and dinner parties and dances and selling them next day _to the women who have seen her wearing them.

Could any woman ask for more ? Miss Nunder is 24 years old and extremely pretty, with fair bobbed hair and large hazel eyes. Left at the death of her father with a few hundred dollars and an ailing sister to support instead of the large fortune she expected, Miss Nunder gallantly started a tiny shop in 48th street, barely three years ago. To-day she makes some £IO,OOO a year. “I only design olothes for really pretty girls of my own age,” she said. “When elderly and unattractive large women oocne into my shop I excuse myself an the (Bounds of being too hardpressed to take orders. “You see, I drape all my materials on myself—never using a model—and consequently I only make for people with a slim figure. I work all day frdin 9.30 to 6 p.m., but as in each case I am originally designing for myself the time passes in a flash. “Going to the two leading dance dubs in New York that correspond to the Embassy and Ciro’s over here is a perpetual ‘nrst night’ to me. It is too exciting for words to pick out my own creations—sometimes ten or more in on evening—on other women. “At the start life was very difficult. Then suddenly everyone, oame to me. “Though Paris originates ideas, Paris designs cannot be swallowed whole by either English or American women.

“The Frenoh dressmakers design for the short, plump French type, and that is no use to the slim, Jong-backed American girls. But they are wonderful at details of buttons and pleats.”