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Harrison Fisher, the creator of the Fisher girls, who has just diedį in New York, was a Bohemian as well as an artist..
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2233 1934.
WORLD'S BIGGEST
INDUSTRY
FASHION CHANGES THAT COST MILLIONS
STYLES SWEEP ROUND WORLD
(By Peter Forrest.)
London.
He had been doing the cover de- signs for the Hearst magazines for over a quarter of a century, ́ Yet few of the staff ever saw him. He patient, moved had his own methods and his own jaguars in a cage. A blonde beau- think. Vast fortunes were made
ty in an example of lex tailleurs. when
short skirts went out of One morning 15 lovely girls were "Smart," murmured my companion. fashion; and I am authoritatively Presently came three informed that if all the women who shown into his flat. Fisher scowl.I agreed. ed. "What does this mean?" he nymphs in things which made me wear berets could be induced to blink and refer to the card. Ah! switch over to real hata, that, again, тосап millions to the
to retura,
(and sexual significance of the The mannequins, sleek, muscular, fashion revolution. It eludes me. before like But the economic aspect makes me
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*The girls explained that they had Robes de nuits. "You should not would
be here," murmured my companion.milliners. been sent by Mr. Hearst.
were I petticoata Fisher rang up Mr. Hearst's disagreed. But what I particu office. "What's the joke?" he ask-larly liked were the slim girls in Lancashire would regain most of ed. He was told that Mr. Heatste robes d'allure sportive; sportive, the 200 million yards of cotton
I thought, was right. thought that he should modernise
But slowly a more his girl drawings, and had ordered some azodels to be sent to the artist.aspect began to emerge midst of this turmoil Fisher slammed down the re-
silks, crepe-de-Chinos, to the girls. | ceiver and turned "Get," he said and they got quick-bons, curls, and curves. I had seen cotton, it gives back artificial silk, several silhouettes, ranging from a huge industry, sustained purely what might be called au natural, to by fashion demands. A Belfast. an excessively artificial Watteauen-linen man told me the other day- que extravaganza. One theme, that his mill group had laid in
goods it has lost in the home mar- important ket. The latest drop, of four mil- from the Hon yards, may be attributed to of satins.nothing more or less than fashion. frills, rib-
But what fashion takes from
Why? Because their advices, from
How A Quarrel Ended Once Fisher quarrelled violently however, persisted: the theme of a record stocks of TAW material. with "Flo" Ziegfeld, of "Ziegfeld new silhouette.
As we came thoughtfully away. I the United States in particular, are Follies" fame. Their reconciliation was brought about in a curious way, said to my companion: "You may that 1934 is going to be a great
Ziegfeld admired the pictures of say what you like about shoulders, linen year in fashion.
skirt lengths, about two of Fisher's "magazine-cover" hips, and
Evidently, fashion began to cross big business girls. He wrote to the artist, offer- bodices, belted walsts, high fronts, over from small to ing to pay him a large commission and walat-line backs, but one thing when alert business men harnessed to it the power of mass production if he would put him on the track of is certain."
"I have said nothing about all and propaganda. the twe models. He wanted them'
those things which seem to be on Mass production makes available dent Wilson realised that they for his show.
every woman, rapidly and' would already have enough irre- Fisher replied that Ziegfeld could your mind." she retorted. "How-to Government dentist problems on their hands go to blazes. and that he had not ever, what is it that is so certain?" cheaply, the latest designs and "Women are going to change ideas of the world's most highly VAX EPS-At the
Thursday, and did not want to set up an-used any models, anyway, Civil Hospital, on
paid fashion experts-designs and For the Ziegfeld at once advertised all their look and shape again."
That, she agreed, was perfectly ideas which formerly were mono- February 22nd 1934, William other Alsace-Lorraine.
Saar, then part of Prussia and over America for girls resembling obvious. "We have been like this polised by a little circle of aristo- Edgar
76. Van Eps.
Bavaria, had been under German Fisher's creation. Funeral will pass the mono-
the
He found two, and asked Fisher for a long time now, too long. I'm crats, plutocrats, smart actresses, control for centuries, with
sick of my own look. So, I expect, und expensive demi-mondaines. ment to-day at 5 p.m.
exception of two periods, one to supper to meet them.
jare millions of other women. It is Fisher accepted the Invitation, time we looked like a new sort of set has been devastating. It was The general effect upon the smart when it was ceded to France in 1648, but regained from Louis and solemnly shook hands
woman. Men must be getting as noted that there were no fewer than XIV. in 1697, and another when Ziegfeld in the presence of the tired of us as I am of this Novem-sixteen identical gowns it was occupied by the French living embodiments of his imaginaber hat. There is nothing more Royal Enclosure at Ascot last sum
in the from, 1793 to 1815. Of the potion.
The China Mail
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exciting for a man than to see anter a thing unheard of in its his- woman he thinks he knows intim-tory; and only the other night I ately looking like somebody he has saw a woman's party at a fashion- never seen before.”
able, restaurant club completely I admitted that there was much ruined by the sight of another in what she said. "It will cost men woman wearing a frock exactly like the new one she had just acquired, plenty," I said.
"Plenty," she smiled,
and which sho intended to be a
men "It will cost
knock-out.
a thousand
They cannot envisage! millions. Nevertheless, it is true.
Where Lancashire Loses
Power Of Propaganda
The fashionable ones thought Empress Eugenie hats were theirs. alone. The ostrich feathers, if
secure-
ed, In next to no time the new
In B
Dr. Myles Bickerton's statement Peace Treaty was that the Saar that over one-third of the blind-: The decision of the League of coal mines were handed over to ness in England is directly derived Nations to postpone considera-
France "as compensation for the from the preceding generation is tion of the Saar plebiscite was destruction of the coal mines in not surprising. only to be expected. It comes the orth of France and as part Blindness is a symptom of two of as n natural corollary to the re-payment towards the total re- the deadliest hereditary diseases. million pounds," I told her. She cent reports of the Nazi cami. parations." But the government it is one of the conditions which smiled incredulously. Women are paign of terrorism which
of this new political unit was put has been recommended as a justi-practical. rendered dubious the result of the into the hands of the League un-fication for sterilisation. plebiscite once taken for grant-til 1935. when a plebiscite was An official of the London As- ed as a vote for reunion with the to be taken for the inhabitantssociation for the Blind states that As a business, fashion to-day is nothing else, seemed to Reich. British correspondents! to determine whether they de-blindness was due to four principal outmatched only by armaments-them. But like lightning the new state "The Saar police have been sired reunion with the Reich, causes. Hereditary disease is the estimated by ex-President Hoover idea was noted, copied, and exploit- Intimidated, and are now afraid union with France, or a con commonest. Next come neglect at to cost a thousand millions annual- to arrest Nazis guilty of out-tinuance of the present Govern- birth, which is less frequent now ly. Using advertising and publicity hat, complete with synthetic ostrich rages. A black list has been ment. If the vote is in favour than thirty years ago, and childish expenditure as a yardstick, fashion feather, was being sold to Lizzie in made of every family not pro- of return to Germany, the latter diseases like measles and scarlet is now the world's biggest indus- Liverpool and Betty on Broadway. fessing loyalty to Herr Hitler, must purchase the coalfields Tever,
try. Motor-cars and patent medi-Two millions were sold in England and it is feared that if the Saar from France by payment in gold.
month; in America, five The fourth cause, which is res- cines stand lower op a space basis. joined the Reich there would be voting will be restricted to those ponsible for less than 10 per cent. Fashion's rise has been one of millions. wholesale deportations to Ger- who were citizens of the Saar in of the blindness In Englend is se- the wonders of the machine age. It
In. disgust the smart sets of many for punishment. The 1920, and were born there and cident. people of the Saar are looking to af five years of age at that time. the League Council, and especial-On the whole.. the Commission ly to Britain, to protect them." has given pence, order and pro- And last year the League of Na-gress, whilst the setting up tions Official Journal reported an advisory council elected by that the Star Commission was the Saarlanders has given them
They use it to describe women forced to take strong measures a large measure of autonomy.) to maintain order, owing to the The present problem is mainly broadcasters in English, who now discovery that the Nazi forma- one of Herr Hitler's own making, regularly operate from Luxembourg tions, known as the S.A (Storm Before his advent all parties in and other continental stations, Troops) and S.S. (Defence the Saar favoured a return to For a woman broadcaster in their Troops) were carrying on mill-Germany, except a small French own language they have discovered tary activities contrary to law. separatist group, and the Com-the hardly less disputable term As these troops numbered 1200, munists. The municipal elec-annouceuSE, whilst the local gendarmerie tions during the last three only amounted to 1000, the Com- months resulted in so many Na- mission prohibited meetings of tional Socialist majorities" that the National Socialist party, at even "Le Temps" admitted that| tempted to dissolve the illegal the result of the plebiscite was forces, and imposed imprison-a foregone conclusion. But the Radiophone communication, be- ment for acts of violence, Nazi excesses, have changed the tween drivers of racing auto- threats, and all attempts to in-complexion of affairs, and the mobiles and mechanics in track- terfere with individual liberty. Centre party in the Saar, once side pits is being tried out on Such attempts were strikingly pro-German, now maintains on race track near London. illustrated in the Tenholt inci- uncertain attitude. In the past
The "Speakerine"
used to be a small affair dependent London, New York, Paris, Cannes, upon an exclusive small world able and Hollywood switched to the to pay high prices. To-day It is a severe little black Spanish hat. French wireless critics have in-vast and ramified concern based But no sooner was it planted on vented the curious Engiial word upon the response of all woman-massaged brows than such hats kind. It is, indeed, one of the great were being offered for two-and- and serious phenomena of our ninepence a time in stores from 'Frisco to Johannesburg and from jeconomic civilisation.
Future historians may appraise Marseilles to Mainga, the exact paychological, sociologicall (Continued on Page 18).
speakerine.
Facts You Did Not Know.
dent, and the forcible kidnapping the Saar inhabitants have ap Cellophane backed on one side by by German aggressors of three pealed to the League against a mesh fabric has been developed Saarlanders, who were only re French penetration through the to serve as temporary windows in leased by the Nazi Government schools, Now It appears, as if buildings during construction or after strong protests from the the next protest may be against remodeling. Commission. The present Na Nazi violence, Herr Hitler, with
campaign adds a fitting chapter the perversity of the fanatic, German railway is experimenting to the history of the Saar, Valley, has ruined a good hand by his with a high pressure steam- which has already been rather method of playing the cards. locomotive have a normal speed of turbulent. For in 1919 the ques. By his withdrawal from the 5 miles an hour and an extreme tion of its fate led to a grave League and the latest refusal to rate of 90 miles, crisis in the peace negotiations, co-operate, Germany has lost her Although, only a small area of voice at. Genevs, and the opportu
700 square miles, the richness of tunity to secure her aims through lay will be favoured in the anti- its coalfields made it a prize well the proper International chan cipation that, given enough rope, worth winning, and its goog nela França la naturally, al. Herr) Hitler may hang himself. raphical position as a builer ter-armed for the fate of her In the meantime the Commis- ritory between Germany and minority nationals, and the move slon, under the able presidency France gave it a stratégie value, for postponement of considera of Mr. Box. Is determined to And so Clemenceau pressed for tion of the plebiscite may end carry out its mandate, to main-| Joutright" annexation by: France. In the "postponement,
order, Justice, and freedom But Mr. Lloyd George and Pr the
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