DRESSMAKERS' LAST VIEW OF CORONATION ROBES
JDressmakers, armed with paper and pencils, went to Norfolk House recently to take their last view of the Yicountess's Coronation robe, AU day in the hours allotted they sketched and measured, doing complicated mathematical qalculations in velvet and miniver, to ensure that the details should b.e correct 4own to the last lappet on the sleeves. Plans are still undecided as to where the robes whicb have been on yiew will be taken no\y that the display ip over. The Earl Marshal has so far given no orders, They will probably stay in Norfolk House for a short while and be romoved later. Then, if the former procedure is followed, kirtle and train will be wrapped up separgtely in cotton coverings and removed in a taxi-cab to their destination.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 15
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