PAPER PATTERNS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 6

PAPER PATTERNS

Home Dressmaking Thriving Local Industry Inquiries in Auckland reveal that the manufacture of paper patterns is a thriving industry in New Zealand, and there is no fear of the home dressmaker being deprived of patterns through the Controller of Customs refusing to grant additional licences to import them from overseas. Several large retailers, however, maintain that the controllers refusal will result in customers being penalised in the matter of securing up-to-date fashions. At present, millions of patterns for garments ranging from women's frocks to sun-bonnets, involving the use of many tons of paper, are cut locally every year, and the manufacturers claim they are able to meet all the Demin ion's requirements. In the citv is a factory with two branches, the largest of its kind in the count ry, which designs, prints, cuts and distributes more than 1.000 000 paper patterns annually. According to the proprietor, its output could be increased to 5.000.000 it needed. Founded 15 \ears ago by a former ladies’ t 'ilor. the businc-- enuMvs more than 1-0 men and women, and has its own nhoto-cn’.ra - in department and automat'd print inc presses It provides ?n a-.'-nue of op nortunitv for people with an artistic flair, who. it is stated, are engaged in designing and adapt ipepatterns supplied I?” the organisation’s overseas representative. Nine months ago. patbrn-making was declared an essential industry under the manpower re mbiions, and the Auckland factory. which uses between "0 end B 0 tons of naner a year, has no difficulty in importing it from overseas. Mod of that lor the patterns is mapufactured in New Zealand but owing to the lack of suln'mte in the Jef'il product.. naper for printing the illustrated brochure of instructions to Het ween 4f)() and 50') di-T’rrnt patterns are ofl'-'ced (o customers b\ firm, and further (bbgns are added fmin lime tn lime There are at best '■iehl other s’'i.'i| b T pit tern I iii h’o-• e- in Anbibnd. mo.s* of them ■■vc-j;H : -i')" in culling to individual Representatives ol large retail houses, how-ver emnlnbs'' that their objection to the con I'T)]ler’.- prohibition is th I it nrcvrnls home dre -amikors from having acres:; to Ih° wide variety of b ,,, 'l oxer ‘"c~ slyh-; which once v<r--bee ana nl o r overseas iHlcm whi c h we re t-eepu <v>iH-hi by e I ist om ers