Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-24
QUANTITY OUTPUT
|SSOUCHT ABROAD
Manufacturers Study Ameri-
can Methods in Efforts to
Meet Competition.
By j. {. ROYLE.
,pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 24.-Amer
lean methods of quantity production
are better weapon with which to
fight for world trade than low Euro
pean wages, according to foreign
manufacturers, who have come to
this country TO study American
methods. American chain store meth
DDS are being adopted in France, ac-
cording to Rene Brunei, representing
Ernest ToulouZ, head of Il French
syndicate dealing in foodstuffs.
The chain store method of merchan-
dising, he said was not new in France
and had been used for AS years, but
the chain store idea, as practiced here
had been a revelation to him. The
Toulouse syndicate has 1900 stores
With tive other members of his firm,
Mr.. Brunei has made a circuit of the
United States, studying food produc-
ton methods in the West and arrang-
ing for the sale of certain Pacific
coast products in France.
Chain Stores Prosper.
The American chain stores now arc
winding up one of the best years they
have ever experienced. Some have
piled up a volume of sales never be
fore cqualed There has been keen
competition between different chains
in some localities and more stores
have been opened in new suburbs
than the demand warranted This
mistake has been obviated in some
sections by merging of conflicting
chains.
1t has been maxim for years
among makers and dealers in Women's
clothes that the Partisan designers
and dressmakers We're able to domi-
nate the field. More American WON
Ell have been in Paris this year than
in any previous season for years. They
have bought heavily and yet French
modistes have been sent over to this
country to investigate and adopt
American methods Of production.
Studies Methods i'm L. $.
Lucien Lelong. a noted designer and
one Of the largest employers of women
in France. was chosen to make the in
vestiGatiUn by the French ministry Of
fine arts, public instruction and labor.
He was sent here TO make a study of
women in industry and learn some
thing of enlightened American factory
practice.
Dressmaking Mr. ,Lelong indicated.
was primarily a creative business. hut
of late the manufacturing end of tho
industry has expanded so in France
that it was now as much Industrial ~
artistic 1T is fairly easy for rs IN
Paris TO lead women 5 fashions for tho
world" he said. 1T is harder FOR us
TO manufa cture dresses in the quaint
ties the world now demands of us.
Largest Paris Industry.
Dresses are to Paris. he continued,
what automobiles are to Detroit, ana
dresSmaking is the largest Partisan
industry. the establishments ranging
in size from the little tenement bust
ness to the famous houses. the names
of which are familiar all over the
world. The business. he indicated,
gave employment TO 100000 Parisians
and establishments employing ! 900 or
more workers are numerous.
Last year the "haute couture
that Is, the leading dressmaking
houses-produced model coats and
gowns valued at more than S25, 900 900,
and four fifths of the annual produc-
ton of the Paris studios now is eX-
ported. OF these exports the United
States absorbS one-half.