DRESS DESIGNS.
AMERICANS IN PARIS ACCUSED. CLANDESTINE COTT Z G ALLEGED. POLICE RAID AND DEMAND FOR EXPULSION. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Monday, 10 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent states that the latest development in the struggle of dressmakers to prevent the clandestine copying of new season’s models, the police raided the homes of two American women who were suspected of a plot to steal copies of winter modes. The party included detectives and experts from leading dressmakers. One woman admitted that she paid anything frorii eightpence to seventeen shillings for a sketch, but maintained that her operations were strictly honourable. The women claim that they are in the habit of buying generously at the Paris autumn exhibtions. Parisian dressmakers demand that the alleged copyists be expelled from France.
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Wairarapa Age, 12 August 1930, Page 5
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