THE WORLD'S FASHIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 5

THE WORLD'S FASHIONS

NEW ZEALAND UP-TO-DATE FRENCHMAN'S IMPRESSIONS (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Australia and New Zealand are in closest, possible touch with Paris, the world's fashion centre, and the women and girls of these. ' countries keep apace with the latest fashion edicts and dress surprisingly well. This is tho opinion of Mr. C. Kimmerliug, a partner in a large silk-mauufacturing establishment in the famous old French town of Lyons. Mr. KimmerJing is now visiting Auckland in the course of a tour of Australia and New Zealand. "Fashion —and by that. I mean design, quality, and coloring—is our biggest problem," said Mr. Kimmerling. "Fashion is purely intuition, and we have to try and hit upon something people will wear a few months ahead. If wc make a mistake we are liable to lose thousands of pounds." They had to judge about 12 months ahead, and the difficulties which beset them could well be appreciated. About 20 years ago a fashion would last two or three years, but things bad altered. The fashions of to-day were changing every two or three months. "There are reasons why Paris is the world's leading fashion centre," Mr. Kimmerling said. "The French naturally hate routine, and are always creating. We find the public always want something new, something different.

"The women in Sydney and Melbourne, and from what I have seen of them during my short time in Auckland, dress very well," he said. "They wear and carry their dresses very well, and I was delighted to see that little personal touch that lent distinctiveness. I would be delighted to make dresses for most of the girls."