![]() ![]() He will then sell the design onto another woman who will have the designs made up and sold at a fraction of the cost with the profits being split between them. The setting is Paris in the 1930s and Alix Gower is recruited by a friend who lives on a barge supporting his two younger sisters to draw designs of a scarf. Designers were alert to the problem and employed different methods to keep their finished articles under wraps to try and foil the counterfeiters but when people are desperate, they do desperate things. ![]() Who would have thought a book about couture would also inform me about the Spanish civil war that was raging before the start of World War II? Not this reader and so as much as I was looking forward to learning about the world of fashion I’m pleased to report there was far more on offer in The Dress Thief.Īs the title suggests the book looks at the business of copying designer fashion and our heroine is caught up in this dubious business. ![]()
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