—“We spend £IO,OOO a year on the silk and other materials that we spoil in creating our models,” said the manager of a w'ell-known firm of Paris modistes, and explained that the proprietress has decided to sign the firm’s name tag attached to every costume sent out, and to add to it the finger-print of the designer. “These original models, invented at such expense,” he continued, “are frequently bought by agents of Germans, who copy them clumsily in a series, and ship thorn to America to he sold with our name stitched in them as genuine Paris frocks/’
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Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 30
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