GOERING'S WIFE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 14 January 1942, Page 6

GOERING'S WIFE

SABLE-LINED HOUSECOAT

BITTERNESS OF PARISIAN'S

Recently an American woman returning from Paris brought news of the fashion centres there. The designers are striving against overwhelming' odds to; keep alive theii great industry, in spite of their dislike of their German clients. French women are knitting their own stockings in cotton, with a wide rib and very open mesh, and just before she left she saw Goering's wife ordering a housecoat lined with sable!

This outsize German woman bought the whole collection of the House of Molyneux—it is easy to understand the increasing bitterness of the women of Paris when they see such extravagant spending—and they short of food.

Incidentally these models could not have been designed by Captain Molyneux, for when the Germans entered Paris this clever designer retreated to his Riviera establishment with the idea of creating fashions for export to assist the French Government. Then came the fall of France, and he returned to London, where he is designing those eV.'gantlv siivmle models which so well become the filim figure of the Duchess of Kent, but weuld certainly he grotesque on the massive proportions of Fran Emmy (Joering!