WOMEN’S DRESSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1941, Page 2

WOMEN’S DRESSES

SHIPMENT SENT TO SOUTH AFRICA. Russia’s influence in style and brilliance of colour is already apparent in a new collection of women’s wear which ninety leading British dress manufacturerers have arranged exclusively for the women of South Africa. Each of the manufacturers has supplied 24 models and there are therefore more than 2,000 of them, some costing as little as 18s apiece. They include day dresses, coats, suits and sportswear, and many beautiful dinner dresses with long sleeves and flowing graceful skirls were shown at the send-off from the Mayfair Hotel, London, when bridal outfits won much applause. The High Commissioner for South Africa in London would “rather have a tooth out, and a good one, than attend a dress .show,”, his wife Mrs Sidney F. Walcrson, told the gathering when she wished the venture all success. The Minister of Commerce and Industry in Pretoria, the Hun. 11. Stuttaford, cabled saying, how necessary it was that the present opportunity should be taken of establishing London as a fashion centre. The collection is sponsored by the Women’s Fashion Export Group.