NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20707, 3 May 1929, Page 15

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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“MISS 1929.” There was a time when people would pay a little more for a durable garment, ihe young lady of to-day regards it as a positive disadvantage. She wants to spend as little as she can, and the opportunity, as often as possible, of having a new dress that will come in with the latest fashion.” Mr A S. Comyns Carr, K.C., made this observation at the Board of Trade inquiry when opposing tire .'.afeguarding application of the woollen and worsted textile industry. a positive eyesore,” continued Mr Comyns Carr, “ if at the end of the season she finds that the dress is not sufficiently worn out to justify her getting a new one. Durability of goods may, therelore be a disadvantage. It certainly is. in the eyes of the young lady of to-day, no compensation for any difference in price, ihe same point of view suits the maker-up because Ire earns his profits on number of garments he can get rid heard the evidence of u ri “■ t i°, x (chairman of Fox, Brothers j Wellington, Somerset), and of William Bliss and Son., LtcL, of Chipping Horton; chairman of the West England Manufacturers’ Association (Woollen), and the West of Emil and Wool Industrial Council). ‘I consider the depression in'the wool and textile trade is world wide, due to the reduced demand for woollen goods,” he said. “ Among the causes of the reduced demand are the change in women’s fashions, for it takes far leas material to make a costume than it used to; substitmes _ for woollen goods such as silk, artificial silk, and printed cottons, which liayv, come to stay; a great increase in knitted goods owing to the fact that men are spending lees money on clothes and mO J e ti. on , mo ! :or i n P, sports, and holidays; and the buying of other goo'ds by instalments and mortgaging the future. Women did not sacrifice clothes for motoring and other amusements.”