DU MAURIER’S DAUGHTER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 1 May 1897, Page 535

DU MAURIER’S DAUGHTER.

Sylvia du Maurier—one of du Maurier’s loveliest daughters —apprenticed herself to Mrs Nettleship, a famous London dressmaker, for a year, and went bravely through all the drudgery of dressmaking, from the beginning to the finish. She, like Mrs Nettleship, had the taste of an artist, but she lacked the practical technique of dressmaking. Now, as she has married a brilliant, but struggling young barrister, she designs and makes all her own costumes, and is as well dressed as—and, what is of much more importance, differently dressed from—any woman in London. It was said that after Mr du Maurier’s sight failed him, Sylvia helped in many of his drawings, and it was her face that one saw constantly repeated for the duchess in • Peter Ibbetson.’ Mrs Nettleship says of her, that from the onset her taste was faultless, and that she was so apt it was no trouble to teach her anything.