HE-MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17978, 25 March 1930, Page 5

HE-MEN.

DESIGN WOMEN’S FROCKS IN PARIS Let women deny it'if they can: no feminist argument can upset the challenge that this is a man-made world. Even the fashion experts who have decided that women shall hobble their knees are men. Dress and hat designing is no longer considered among the ladylike jobs of life. Sydney has several men milliners, and the'Parisian designers Who sit in their lairs and issue demands about frocks and frills are quite he-men. Watch Paul Poiret bend an iron pipe with his muscular arms, and you know that he is anything but efflminate, despite his lifelong association with frocks and tape measures. And there is Captain Molyneux, tho Englishman who won enough medals in the war to decorate half a dozen gowns. Paquin weighs about l-l stone, and would be a formidable adversary it' anyone decided to argue about one of tiis price tickets. Paul Pqiret did not reach his pre-sent-day eminence without a struggle, and in his youth he sketched frocks in between delivering umbrellas. Worth is one of the few men who has lived all his life in the dressmaking business. His grandfather founded the luxurious firm in Paris in 1816. j