MAKING THEIR OWN DRESSES.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 2

MAKING THEIR OWN DRESSES.

In 1913 every girl made at least soxne of her own dresses and apparently by 1933 the pendulum will have swung baek and the domesticated hobby of dressmaking have become f,ashionable again. Mayfair mothers and daughters are taking elasses together at the private school which Lady Berwick is running in one of the picturesque cellars that run like a warren underneiath Rasil Street, Knightsbridge. One of the Queen's ladies-in-wait-ing .is learning here how to paek, clean, iron and press clothes — a class held for the modern hostess who trayels without a maid. The wife of an ambassiador is also taking up this study of the "upkeep" of clothes, which women are most eager to learn in these days of eeonomy. An M.P's wife, Mrs. Duckworh, antd Lady Scone are among the dress-mak-ing students in the pine-panelled workroom with the vellum-toned ceiling so much ladmdred by the Queen •of Norway. Lady Crossley is going there to make a frock for the tropics. This is for her airwoman daughter, Delia, who is planning to fly to India. Well-known women thromged the attractive room the other day to learn from the fashion expertj the Hon. Mrs. C. W. Forester, what are the new season's fashions, states a London writer.