Gown Made in an Hour
ORESS parades and fashion demonstrations "were the order of the day in London when the last mail left. Modern women have discovered that fashions need to be understood in cider to be worn in the smartest and most becoming ways, and the enthusiastic audiences at the parades are made up of students of fashion in every sense of the word. Speed records of all kinds are being broken daily, but a recent record was probably tho most original of all. in ono hour exactly, at Self ridge’s, an evening dress was made, complete in all its details, and ready for wear.
At eleven-thirty there were four and a quarter yards of' black satin, and two and a quarter yards of white. At half-past twelve they had been converted into a slim-fitting black dinner dress, with a Y-shaped white yoke and double Cape Sleeves.
A series of detailed lectures on this method of “express dressmaking," with actual demonstrations, was given during one week at this London store, and proved very popular.-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 10
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