DRESS AT LEVEES
RIGHT HON. MARGARET BONDFIBLD
United Service.
:"; LONDON^ 11th June. ."'•" Miss. Bondfield, as the first woman Privy. Councillor, can only assert her rights to equal recognition with men if she goes to the King's levees in velvet knee-breeches and cocked hat. That, says the "Daily News," is.at present the only solution of a problem which her appointment creates.■■; Eesponsible officials are hoping thai the occasion will not arise when they will have to tell Miss Boudfield that she may have entered the Cabinet, but levees are such a male province that she can only attend in male guise, as levee dress is .the only costume recognised. On the other, hand, Mr. Austin Hertslet, an official of the Lord Chamberlain's '.office and a leading authority on Court' dress, and the author of a text-book thereon, says Miss Bondfield, when attending Court functions, would wear a woman's usual.Court dress, as there is no ruling regarding the unprecedented question of a woman Privy. Councillor's uniform.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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164DRESS AT LEVEES Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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