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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1956Vol. XXVI, No.10

[?] to be Glamorous

p. 137 · Read in the full issue

Even in the Wet

lo need now for tropical ladies to have that pt-up-with-a-broom look just because they in a wet climate. Plastic raincoats have [?] become high fashion in Australia where Melbourne-Dutch firm (Plastalon Pty., Ltd.) invented a process of permanently pleating Stic. As a result, plastic raincoats do not [?]d any more to look like sacks, and have sed from the utility to the glamour field, e above).

With their four-yard skirts and amusing designs [?]rom spots to love-birds—and contemporary [?]lurs, these coats have had a sensational eption in Australia. They will soon be liable in Papua, New Guinea and in the Commons Agent for Plastalon is Mr. D. M. [?] nerling, who leaves Sydney for P-NG and P on May 15. He will visit Moresby ice), Honiara, Rabaul, Madang, Wau, Bulolo, [?]oka, Lae between that date and June 22. hopes to organise mannequin parades with [?] girls for models, in some of these tres.