NEW PARISIAN MODELS
PREVENTION OF COPYING. THE LATEST'DEVELOPMENT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ) . LONDON, August 11. (Received August 11, at 11 p.m.) The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the latest development in the struggle of dressmakers to prevent clandestine copying of new .season’s models is a police raid on the homes of two American women who are suspected of a plot to steal copies of winter modes. The party included detectives and experts from the leading dressmakers. One woman admitted that she had paid anything from fid to 17s for a sketch, but 'they maintained that their operations were strictly honourable. The women claim. that they are in the habit of buying generously at the Paris autumn exhibitions. Parisian dressmakers demand that the alleged copyists be expelled from Prance.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21102, 12 August 1930, Page 9
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