PARIS FASHIONS
COPYJSTS FROM U.S.A. [United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph— Copynght.] LONDON, August 11, The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states: -The latest development in the struggle of the dressmakers to prevent the clandestine copying of the new season’s models is that the police raided the houses of two American women, who were .suspected of a plot to steal copies of the winter modes. The raiding party included detectives and experts from the leading dressmakers. One woman admitted that she bad paid anything from eight pence to seventeen shillings for a sketch, but she maintained .that her operators had been strictly honourable. The women claim that they are in the habit of buying generously. at the Paris autumn exhibitions. The Parisian dressmakers demand that the alleged eoypists shall be expelled from France.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1930, Page 2
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131PARIS FASHIONS Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1930, Page 2
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