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SCHOOLGIRL’S ROMANCE

FLOURISHING DRESSMAKER. TURNOVER OF £875,000. A schoolgirl who started with a capital of £B7 a few years ago now has a business with an annual turnover of £875,000 a year. The girl who started with her as her first assistant at £2 a week is now getting a salary of £l5 a week. This is the romantic story which Isobel—the young Englishwoman who, it is claimed, has beaten tho Parisians at their own game of dressmaking—told to the Sunday Chronicle recently. It is part of her romance that she is known only by the word “Isobel” to her thousands of customers, to her business associates and even to her staff. From her palatial offices in London Isobel now controls a business which

is one of the largest of its type in the world. She sells her products all over the British Empire, and even in hundreds of shops in America. The humble workshop where the two girls first started has now become a groat manufactory where over 400 girls and 50 men are employed. She has 15 mannequins and thousands of clients. The rise of Isobel to her supreme posi tion is almost unequalled in the history of business women

‘• When I was at school,” Isobel states, “I had a passion for drawing dress designs, and one day I sent some of them to a famous designer in Paris. Much to r my surprise and delight, he replied, enclosing a cheque for those he had accepted. So I sent more and more, and in this way I saved up my £B7. Then when T was 18 1 decided to start on my own.” She did so in a tiny room on a top floor in Regent Street, and four years later bought a whole corner site in the same street. “I owe my success partly to being original,” Isobel says. “I was among the first to wear the now famous anklelength evening dress.”

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 12

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SCHOOLGIRL’S ROMANCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 12

SCHOOLGIRL’S ROMANCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 12

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