Show Women Make Business of liat Hai Years Old SEATTLE Two Seattle housewives house house- housewives housewives wives have become fashion experts with a booming business more or orl orlea Ir 1 l c by accident They are Mrs Wesley V. V Korman Kor- Kor Korman Korman man wife of an architect and Mrs Julian P. P Jenner wife of a bank official It all began after aCter the two began buying bamboo blinds from Japan and taking orders on a small scale from neighbors They asked the imported about other native Japa Japa- Japanese Japanese Japanese nese work He remembered an year-old year hat he had seen during his boyhood in Japan The girls took one look and knew it was for a high fashion market and set out to sell it They wrote a friend Billie Beach Stiff suggesting that she join their partnership and contact eastern stores with the Sudan hat Hat lIat Is Great Success Billie liked the idea and hocked a set of silver fox furs to finance a trip to Washington and New York The first store she approached took 50 hats The Seattle girls quote Billie I think the reason I was such a suc suc- success success success cess is that I was too dumb to go through regular reg lar channels I went right to the top officials The easter caster success inspired the housewives to undertake a miles western tour covering lead lead- leading leading leading ing resorts and shops in nine western west west- western western ern states Everywhere they went the hat was a success In a Colorado store patrons and help elbowed pushed and crowded around when it was shown One owner of a swank shop closed up so he could talk hats without interruption Work Twenty Dour Hour Day Orders poured in and Lou and Jo returned home to a hour 20 day This is the way their day goes one of them reports First we spoon food into the babies and then do diapers Then we open mail pack hats do invoices figure prices on our other products whip down to see seethe seethe seethe the patent attorney the banker the broker the importer get tests made on our newest products go goback goback goback back home and pack some more hats until 11 or 12 o'clock then dash down to the express office to get them off The phone rings rings' all allday allday allday day and we cant can't keep up with our correspondence Once they learned the ropes of selling the products they branched out in all directions They went in with a manufacturer of a device that converts walnut birch ma ma- mahogany mahogany hogan or other woods into fine slats These slats are ar used in weaving drapes blinds lamp lampshades I 1 amp a m p shades and other such items Some of their customers have haves such s ch confidence in them they have havea a standing order of a dozen of any any- anything anything anything thing new |