FLIGHTS OF FASHION BY LONDON WOMEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18641, 19 December 1928, Page 1

FLIGHTS OF FASHION BY LONDON WOMEN.

DAY TRIPS TO PARIS AND LIGHTNING SALES. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October 18. That Englishwomen are developing the “air habit” to the extent of doing their shopping by aeroplane, appears from a report to-day that many Paris dressmakers number among their best clients women who fly from their London homes to the Paris fitting-rooms by the cross-Channel services. The short time needed for the trip enables the “flying shoppers” to arrive the instant the season’s secrets are revealed. make their purchases and return to London the next—sometimes the same—day. The dressmakers are informed in advance by telegram, and have their special models kept in readiness for lightning sales. Sometimes several trips are made at intervals of two and three davs for “fittings.” Figures published by the cross-Chan-nel air companies to-dav show that women passengers outnumbered men by five to four, and that the majority of ihe former are British. Frenchwomen rarelv fly.