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MARKETING EMPIRE FOOD.

GOVERNMENT PLANS TO FIND THE

MONEY

In the meantime attention is being directed to the fact that no provision for the spending of the £1,000,000 & 371 allocated for this purpose was made is the Budget

SANT PARIS-August 18th. When all the world of Paris that

As the new Imperial Economic Com counts is away sunning itself in some muttee has progressed sufficiently far with seaside or mountain retreat, the Total work to siene; recommendations" on signers of the capital are spending moans of inproving the marketing of feverish days putting the final impart Dominion produce, the Government mus: ant touches to their Autumn collections give early attention to the steps necessary and abawing them to the buyers from to carry them into effect, says a writer in their own and other lands, who are

A Home paper. ... spending equally feverish days choosing the models from the array which verily seems to be as yalimited as the ocean itself and which will so tim fashion for the coming season in each country to which they are seat. Some of the designers show their entire collection on one grand opening day, or evening, others have prepared a stock so numer pon to produce any large proportion of ons that it takes three days to show it the annuity for the current year, since of to the public, very much lika a

the schemes will not be sufficiently ad- Chinese, grand opera. There was auchanood, and hopes that any expenditure a file of motor cars in front of the incurred may be met by savings on de house at some of the openings, such partmental estimates. calling for chauffeurs and such a cou is probable that the principal fusion generalip that the entire block economies will be called for from the took on the elegant importance of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Board Faubourg St. Honore on the occasions of Trade. The expenditure on agricul when there is a reception at the Elysée,ture, fisheries, and forestry in the present the British Embassy or the Cercle year is estimated at £3,601,676, compared Interallió. N

with pre-wad expenditure of £121,058,

· ELUSIVE. KLIMSINESS.

It is gathered that the Government does not anticipate that it will be called

CEDDES REPORT IGNORED.

The Geddes Committee also, made a number of other recommendations which have not been carried out, including:-

There were numbers of afternoon dresses in georgette and lace charm In 1999 the Geddes Economy Committee ing creations that were one mass of recommended that the net estimate of the clusive Aimsiness and feminine grace.Ministry of Agriculture alone, then stand- There were other frocks in alpaca and ing at £2,060,171, should be reduced to silk poplin, equally attractive though £1,783,000. Instead it has been increased more simple and severs in ling and by approximately £800,000. – detail. These were trimmed for the most part, with embroidery worked on in a host of harmonising colours, silk beads, tiny leather thongs and wool being the different mediums chosen. There were also any number of velvet dresses sometimes depending only on an impeccable line or a touch of em{ broidery for effect, sometimes, as in the case of evening gowns destined for the grande nemariana, embroidered in sparkling diamente. sometimes," as in the case of a brown velvet, afternoon dress, inlet with panels of brown plaid cloth.

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SEVERE TAILOR-MADES,

The tailor mades were all plaiu in the detail and severe in cüt Wand majority were made of soft woollea Kasha and other Rodier matérials. weaves predominated, and brown in its varying moods was the colour most "favoured: There was a smart manhish

Tuenbolition of the Ministry of Transport, and the Department of Overseas Trade as separate depart ments, their duties to be handed over to the Board of Trade,

The abolition of the Mines Depart ment, its various functions to revert to the Departments originally responsible

for them

The present cost of the Departments referred to is as follows

Board of Trade Overseas Trade

Mines Department Transport Ministry

Total

£534,714 349,907 169,543

118,995

£1,173,430

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French call "tailleur, classique, and ed Standing Committee of the Cabinet on which English tailors consider the only public expenditure. The Committee a-be recognized, costume which has the right to callady has called for statements from a itself tailor-made. The skirts were number of the spending Departments. straight, narrowish and short; the jackets were mostly hip length and same were Anished with a tiny belt running ncross the back. Generally there were little pull-on velours or felt hats to match. Perhaps the one personal note about the tailor-mades at Lacile's was the fact that, with each suit, there was shown a crepe de Chine Jumper to match.

TWO-PIECE COSTUMES,

A feature of the collection was cer- tainly the two-piece costumes, None of the coats of these were long, nar the skirts, either. The coats were for the most part made of a combination of two materials, either inlet in the form of panela, goders or strips, and the dress underneath was made of the material most predominant in the coat. Many of the coats were trimmed with bands of fur or embroidery, the same trim ming, naturally being repeated in some. form on the dress

The travelling costs were made mostly of a heavy type of cheviot, of kasba or of velours, Leather, in bands or elactin strips worked on in intricate patterns, was the favourite method of trimming. There were, also, a number of striking looking capes, cut on the lines of a military cape, destined for wear with some of the day frocks

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bordered with fur bands of fur run- ning dingoually down the length of a dress or coat and fur, itself striped with fur of another colour. I was par- ticularly struck by examples of grey for striped with a für dyed a vivid green. Premet is also using fur collars on most of her cont frocks, which she has cut slim and in precable in line. The coats, too, of her two-piece and one-piece costumes, she has finished with a fur collar. Jersey, kasha and tweeds are the materials she has chosen, and the coats are either long or three-quarter in length: She has compromised with some models by adding a touch of embroidery in the place of fur

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There were a number of lighter type& of cost in a new silken material known ax crepe medaille. This is a patterned fabric, in this case, in shades of black and green, and fashion critica predict

popular reception of it this Autaian. Another new material being launched in. the collections is a kind of transparent white velvet

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GERMAN DUELS.

STUDENTS CAN SLICE EACH OTHER AS BEFORE:

Mensur or student check clashing, is not properly duelling, and cannot he condemned as such, according to judg meut pronounced in the Heidelberg Court. Henceforth students can continna to slice each other and develop nerve." as heretofore bed

For the evening gowns, Rossi had Premet is using velvets a great deal called gold and silver lacs to his aid, for her evening models, also chiffon, rich abining velvets and gorgeous lames, and she is creasing original effect by and with these be had fashioned gowns combining two shades of the same so wondrous that they seemed it only material. One chiffon dress, for for some Empress of old Byzantium toxample, which I noticed, showed. In -west. An original feature he intro black skirt and a pink bodice In duced in some of these was the single nearly every case, there was an even sleeve, many of his models showinging wrap designed to match a parti merely one arm wholly or partly cover cular dress with which it was supposed od and the other quite bare.

to be worn, and no other. Velvets and MORK NORMAL WAISTLINHA UNI

James were the materials most in favour, Premet demonstrates quite forcibly by for evening wraps. the models, in hex Autumn collection that LINE LITTLE CHANGED. sho is in favour of a return to tighter Summing them up, the clothes for fiting clothes, a more normal waist the coming acason, show little change line and fuller skirta, in short, a re-in line, colour or detail with the clothes turn to fashions less iconoclastic in of this or last season. The line is

line and detail than those which post war youth has insisted upon. Apart from these new lines, which, by the way, Premet has been doing her best to introduce for the last season or so, perhaps the one outstanding feature of the collection is her wholesale use of dyed fur. Thore in fur of all shades to seen, from purple and green to AD Ausual, shade of claret that she uses very effectively in conjunction with white materials One ensemble that was znost striking, showed a white kisha through the winter, and felt one A deputation of students proceeded coat trimmed with a deep collar and crushed onto her head throughout the Potsdam Visited the stove of Frede cuffs of a purple shade of blue; the sammer if she chooses to do sokerick the Great at Sans Souci, and later jumper which was worn underneath, wise," she can dye her for any shade with a simple white pleated skirt, way of the rainbow that appeals to her and visited the aviation field, where they embroidered in different quaint design trim her lace or chifica evening drees were addressed by Dr Eckener, to whom with the same shade of hide silk as with it, and no one will think of call the students had promised financial and ths fur collar. Not content with using ing her or her toilette ridiculous. Since moral support for the coming North for dyed all Um colours of the rain the war, there has been a revolution in Pole fight Dr. Eckener congratulated. bow. Premet insing it cut into all the fashion world, as in the worlds of the students on safeguarding the old the shapes and dimensions known or morals and manners, and, the general German idealim, which shows that the unknown to Euclid Her models are attitude towards these bas become German spirit cannot be withered by trimmed with fur, cut into triangles and sane and reasonable that it has liberated

lained that the patterns that one never sees nowadaye women from the tyranny of the part Doming except in the frenated pictures of a in the matter of her clothes, almost as Cubist Artist; there are godets of fur campletely as it has liberated her from reaching the falet auto other models, uneven bems other tyrannies based on prejudice sad capacity of a Zapí

ditions (Continued on next Column). tradition

The sudden, arrest of a number of students a short time ago in an historical straighter in some cases, more faring student tavern in Heidelberg on the in others; skirts shorter with some de signers, longer, and wider with others strength of Parliamentary, decision And there is such jumble of materials that student duelling was included in generally, that the one conclusion on the anti-duelling law alarmed students inevitably Gives it is that Dame throughout Germany, since it would have. Fashion has become surprisingly in destroyed the time-honoured institution dulgent and no longer lays down of student drinking and duelling corps. strich law which forbids the wearing of The Heidelberg decision restores this lace and chiffon in winter and felt and traditional right. This decision PERAKur- velvet in summer. A smart-woman mayed, the Students assembled, for the Berlin now wear a straw hat smilingly all conference

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