COVETED SOCIAL AWARD
World’s Best Dressed Woman
The Paris dress designers have recently awarded the coveted social award of the world’s best dressed woman to Madame Antenor Patino, wife, of the newly-appointed Bolivian Minister to London.
Madame Patino is dark and petite and dresses a good deal in the warmer, stronger colours, particularly violet blue. She spends about £20,000 a year on dress.
The Duchess of Windsor was the last person to hold this title, and the Duchess of Kent is considered the third best dressed woman in the world.
Madame Patino is a Bourbon. She was Princess Christina de Bourbon, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. Her husband, M. Antenor Patino, is heir to one of the five biggest fortunes in the world, drawn from huge deposits in Bolivia. Her father-in-law is Don Simon Patino, Bolivian Minister to France. He is the world’s greatest tin magnate. Many years ago Don Simon accepted a strip of mountain land in ■ Bolivia from a Portuguese miner, in lieu of a debt. This mountain land turned out to be full of tin, and was the beginning of the existence of the giant Patino Mines and Enterprises Corp., Inc.
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Southland Times, Issue 23734, 4 February 1939, Page 15
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197COVETED SOCIAL AWARD Southland Times, Issue 23734, 4 February 1939, Page 15
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