LONG BILLS
Some idea of the enormous sums spent by society women in Chicago on personal adornment may be gathered from figures which were given at the half-yearly convention of tho Chicago Dressmakers' Club the other day (eaya tho New York correspondent of tue "Standard"). According to these statistics several of tho leaders of society spend no less than £15,000 • a year on dross, while one hundred of the women who form tho elite of tho city aro said to have a yearly expenditure of £10,000 apiece. Ten thousand others spend the mere trifle of £1000 per annum to deck themselves. In brief, enough money is spent in the year at their dressmakers, -etc., by society women there to build no fewer than five super-Dreadnoughts I
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 11
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126LONG BILLS Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 11
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