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...canny British dress manufacturer, Leslie Berker, and his designer, Norman Hartnell-who styles the royal family-invaded the land of haute couture in its softest spot, the middle-class Frenchwoman who can't afford the steep price of Parisian designers and usually makes her own clothes or wrangles with wrangly little dressmakers. French firms that manufacture readymade medium-priced dresses were caught with their patterns down...
...From Berker's twelve-acre factory in Plymouth came 3,000 wool dresses in 24 sizes (the French offer only eight) that had been snatched up by a Printemps buyer, Prince Alexander Galitzine. "The styles are in sober taste," he carefully explained, "but go well with gay French accessories." Bestselling color: post-office red. Bestselling style: red wool bodice with red and black check skirt...
...Berker, Henry...