GIGGLING AMATEURS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20455, 7 November 1934, Page 1

GIGGLING AMATEURS.

Mannequins Strike as Protest. LONDON, October 29.

Mayfair mannequins, says the “ Daily Mail,” support their New York colleagues in the protest against the competition of wealthy debutantes, which has led to a strike in a famous Fifth Avenue store employing Sociall} 7- prom j inent amateurs. j Lucie Clayton, a statuesque blonde and one of London’s most famous models, who runs a mannequins’ academy, says modelling is a hard job to hundreds of highly-trained mannequins, btU only a lark to society girls. “ Americans are not exaggerating when they complain that amateurs are lowering the professional standard,” she adds. “ Rich girls look lovely at a cocktail party or a country club, but fail before a critical audience. “ They slouch about and giggle with their friends and have no idea of how i to put on their clothes. I “ Nevertheless, they are invariably I paid more highly than professionals.” Joanne Safelle, England’s si>#oot ' mannequin, says: “ We do not mind jif the amateurs are good, but the majority are hopeless. They trail about, | making the show look ridiculous. They i haven’t a flair for clothes.” On the other hand. Primrose Salt, a debutante of last year, champions the amateurs. “ Judging by my friends, they raise the standard. A well-brecl i girl usually possesses a good carriage and has a flair for clothes,” she says.