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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 7

The Cost of Clothes.

Tin; cost of the (roiisscnii is a very ceripus factor in the wedding of to-dny (writes a London correspondent of tin , 'Australasian"). I am not thinking now ii) , ii ninrriiige .such, as Lady T.evesonUowcrV, but of 1 lie- ordinary middle-class girl, who purchases her oiiifit by means of a cliec|ue signed by her father. A comparison between a"■ trousseau- bought in 1!IO!) and olre purchased to-day wiis recently published. The wedding dress of white satin cost .£ll 1.45., the going-away di;ess .CS Ss., an evening frock ,£'7.7s. In .all ,181) was spent on dresses, blouses, and hoots and shoes. Lingerie—a dozen of everything—accounted for .£lO more. To-day the wedding cown would co.it ,£25, the going-away dress ,£H IK. l.lin inercfi'Pil cost of other items making the bill for dresses tinnelliins like JJtfO. A« for the lingeries. .Cl2tl would not provide the articles which co-it JMO ten years ago. Everythini; is hvice or three limes as much, while the crepe de chine. .Milanese tsilk. and other materials of present I'ashio.ns have nothing like Hie wearing duality of the nlri-fasliimml ivonssran aTr ticks. are not times when one call be wedded cheaply. East and West. .Til I lie course of n lecture gieen before the Koyiil Colonial Institute in Christchurch, I'rol'essor .Macinillan Urowu said, in speaking of .lapan, Ihat ,she was goiuft to be rich, and if .she onw (-.vploited China she would he one of tin* richest nations of Ihe world within a couple of etiiiliiries. She had hail great successes in war iiiul coinuievce, two of Hip iiiiiili factors which iiiiliu.'cd Clerinnny to wbri> the ii roil ( war. and tin' spunker liad'uo doubt thai she would spend a. long Time, us (iennany h.-id (loin , —tlioiijjli Germany had not spent long enough—in neacefult.v penetrating all Hi" nations which xhe. nieiinl Infer to subdue. Jiin-.m was inloxicaled willnlier ambitious, but lie nilevs klii-w thai sli.' mii-l liavc wcatl!. before she alleiupl'd Hie arnt slnr."j'i In secure I lie nuistery of the I'acilii Ocean.