RABBIT OR ERMINE?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 21, 9 February 1937, Page 10

RABBIT OR ERMINE?

Peeresses' Choice For Coronation BIG SAVING INVOLVED LONDON, Feb. 7. A duchess's dress bill for the Coronation ceremony will reach £432, of which £336 will go in a crimson velvet three-piece robe, including a train and ermine trimmed cape, and the remainder for. a white or gold court dress costing £60, a coronet £25, gloves and shoes £5 each and stockings 20/-, says the "Sunday Timqs." Commenting on the peeress's .robe, which can be worn only once or twioe in a lifetime, at coronations, it adds: "On the same scale a marchioness must spend £304 on her robe, a countess £288, a viscountess £267, and a barones's £246, the dGference heing largely due to the lesser ermine and shorter trains required by the lower ranks. "But peeresses content to wear rabbit instead ef ermine and machinewoven velvet instead of hand-woven and other cheaper materials can save between £135 and £178 according to rank. All, however, will have further expense on tiaras and other jewellery.